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To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.

yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod. [Scot.]

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.

Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing. Addison.

n Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab. -- Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. Mortimer. Purse pride, pride of money; insolence proceeding from the possession of wealth. Bp. Hall. -- Purse rat. (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Poc…

An ancient English fishing boat.

A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. Gay.

Fishing for scallops.

a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

he European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white- tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaëtus ichthyaëtus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.

Fishing with a seine.

minuta). -- Shrimp net, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net dragged over the fishing ground.

The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.

A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

A kind of fishing net.