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shellfishery

noun

Etymology

Blend of shellfish + fishery.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. formed as fishery — “fish + -ery”
  7. compounded as shellfishery — “shellfish + fishery”

Definitions

  1. A place where shellfish are caught or processed.

    • It may come as a surprise that there is a shellfishery worth defending in New York City waters.

  2. The catching of shellfish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shellfishery. 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