English

Adjective

fishing ‎(not comparable)

1. Of, about, or pertaining to the act of fishing.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/19/2, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     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.

Synonyms

• piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian

Related terms

• (adv): piscatorially

Translations

Noun

fishing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

Stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka.

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   a good day's fishing

2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   the fishing industry

4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
   • Edmund Spenser

     the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times (volume 2, page 190)

     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.

Synonyms

• (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport): sportfishing
• (place): See fishery

See also

• (adj): See fishing
• (adv): halieutically
• (science): halieutics, piscatology
• (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

Translations

Verb

fishing

1. present participle of fish

Derived terms