Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where fishing is or may be carried on.
- noun Specifically A prescribed length of shore in shore-fishing to which the sweep of a seine is limited.
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Examples
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When he reached his fishing-place, he heard a voice singing --
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When they reached the fishing-place, they heard as before the voice shouting --
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This is a great fishing-place, and a great watering-place.
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Once it happened that he went with a party of Indians to a fishing-place on the Hudson.
French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson
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As the river chieftains -- the lords of the waterfalls and the mountains -- ranged this lovely valley, can it be wondered at, if they beheld with bitterness the forest disappearing beneath the settler's ax -- the fishing-place disturbed by his saw-mills?
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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They then drove through Folly Cove, a fishing-place facing Ipswich Bay, and also Lanesville, where they saw work going on in the Lanesville Granite Company quarries.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various
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It was a fishing-place of some importance when Torquay, its neighbour, was little known, except perhaps as a rendezvous of smugglers and pirates.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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At first we thought he had found a remarkable fishing-place; but he seemed to catch very few fish.
Tish 1916
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And that reminds me, I promised to show you a good fishing-place.
A Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1918
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At first we thought he had found a remarkable fishing-place; but he seemed to catch very few fish.
Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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