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piscary

noun

Etymology

From Latin piscarius (“relating to fishes or to fishing”), from piscis (“a fish”). By surface analysis, Latin pisc- + -ary.

  1. derived from pisc- + -ary
  2. derived from piscarius — “relating to fishes or to fishing”

Definitions

  1. fishery

  2. The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters.

    • It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for piscary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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