Meaning

(uncountable) The act of catching fish..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
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.
4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
5. present participle and gerund of fish

Example Sentences

We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

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.

This is good news for the fishing industry.

the rent of the fishings

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.

Word Forms

• fishings

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Use fishing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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