Piscary

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    fishery countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold wordnet
  3. 3
    The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters. countable, uncountable

    "It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common."

Synonyms

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fish farmfisherfisheryfishery

Example

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"It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common."

Etymology

From Latin piscarius (“relating to fishes or to fishing”), from piscis (“a fish”).

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