fishing

Plural

fishings

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The act of catching fish.

   • We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
   • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. 2.The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.(informal)

   • Do you sometimes go fishing with Tom?
   • If you do not go fishing tomorrow, I will not either.
   • I got up early to go fishing.

3. 3.A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   • Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

4. 4.Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   • This is good news for the fishing industry.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.present participle and gerund of fish

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