Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where fish are preserved alive. Two kinds are commonly distinguished, the fresh- and saltwater.
- noun A private fishery.
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Examples
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Government had to pay some hundreds of pounds sterling to the proprietors of the fish-preserve.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Golden-Horn is my fish-preserve; my flocks of golden fleece are pastured on the plain of Marathon, and the honey of Hymettus is distilled from the flowers that grow in the vale of Enna -- all in my
Prue and I George William Curtis 1858
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