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fishing

noun
/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.

  1. inherited from fischynge

Definitions

  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. The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.

  3. Commercial fishing

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

    • This is good news for the fishing industry.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A fishery, a place for catching fish.

      • 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.

    2. present participle and gerund of fish

The neighborhood

Derived

antifishing, bottom-fishing, compliment fishing, cormorant fishing, cyanide fishing, drift fishing, electrofishing, fishing eagle, fishing frog, fishingly, fishing net, fishing owl, Fishing Point, fishing room, fishing-smack, fishing-tube, fishing worm, fly fishing, fly-fishing, gone fishing, gorge fishing, ice fishing, Jonah fishing, line fishing, mucus fishing syndrome, nonfishing, rodfishing, shellfishing, skishing, spearfishing

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fishing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fishing02catching03captivating04fascinating05attractive06enticing07enticement08entices09entice10lure

A definitional loop anchored at fishing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fishing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA