Piscation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    fishing; fishery obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes"

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castingfishingfishingwhaling

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"There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes"

Etymology

From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”).

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