Meaning of fishing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of catching fish.
   uncountable
2. third-person singular present indicative
3. The act, occupation, or sport of catching fish.
4. The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
   informal, uncountable
5. second-person singular imperative
6. A place for catching fish.
7. Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
   uncountable
8. the occupation of catching fish
9. A fishery, a place for catching fish.
   countable
10. (Angling) another word for piscary2
11. the technique, occupation, or diversion of catching fish.
12. A. N → pesca fto go on a fishing expedition → ir de pesca
    N
13. B. CPD fishing boat N → barco m pesquero or de pescafishing fleet N → flota f pesquerafishing grounds NPL → caladeros mpl, pesquerías fplfishing industry N → industria f pesquerafishing licence, fishing permit N → licencia f de pescafishing line N → sedal mfishing net N → red f de pescafishing port N → puerto m pesquerofishing rod N → caña f de pescarfishing tackle N → equipo m de pesca
    CPD
14. n → Fischen nt; (with rod) → Angeln nt; (as industry) → Fischerei f; fishing (is) prohibited → Angeln verboten!
    n
15. n → Fischerboot nt
    n
16. n → Fischereiflotte f
    n

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“This is good news for the fishing industry.”

“the rent of the fishings”

“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.”

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