Fisher

Quick meaning: Fisher is a noun meaning A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.

Meaning

A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.

More Meanings

1. A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
2. Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

Example Sentences

In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.

The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.

The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher, lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees.

In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by fisher and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by fishers but not martens.

Word Forms

• fishers

Synonyms for fisher

Depending on context, synonyms include angler, fisherman, fisherperson, piscary, piscator, piscatorialist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fisherman, pekan, fishing, fishery, angler, fisherfolk.

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