craft

en-noun

craft (countable and uncountable, plural craft or crafts)

From Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”) and Danish kraft (“strength, power, force”).

johtamistaito

skill in making plans and carrying them into execution

And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]

a. 1784, T. Green, “An Act for encouraging and regulating Fiſheries”, in Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America, page 79:

The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.

1869 April 27, C. M. Scammon, “On the Cetaceans of the Western Coast of North America”, in Edward D. Cope, editor, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 21, page 46:

From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.

a. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, “A Boy Who Went Whaling”, in The Highest Hit: and Other Selections by Newbery Authors, Gareth Stevens Publishing, published 2001, →ISBN, page 47:

[…]Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.

1950, Discovery Reports, volume 26, Cambridge University Press, page 318:

The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.

1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, →ISBN, page 55:

(countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .


head

en-verb

head (third-person singular simple present heads, present participle heading, simple past and past participle headed)

heads (present singular third-person)
heading (participle present)
headed (participle past)
headed (past)
heed (alternative obsolete)
hed (alternative obsolete)
'ead (alternative UK pronunciation-spelling)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput-
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
From Middle English hed, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; chief”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-; the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth.
Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

doublet

Near-synonyms: behead, dehead

The salmon are first headed and then scaled.

(fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).


nigger

niggers (plural)
n****r (alternative)
n-word (alternative euphemistic)
nigga (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
niggah (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
nigguh (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

desctree

>? Sranan Tongo: nengre
Aukan: nengee
Saramaccan: në́ngë

→ Danish: nigger

→ Dutch: nikker

→ German: Nigger

→ Norwegian: nigger

→ Swedish: nigger

Probably immediately from Middle French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro (“a black person”); ultimately from Latin niger (“black”), thus a doublet of negro and noir. Compare Danish nigger, Swedish neger, German Nigger, Dutch nikker. First use appears c. 1577, in the writings of Edward Hellowes (fl. 1574–1601). The expected Modern English pronunciation would be with /iː/; compare neger. The modern pronunciation with /ɪ/ may be due to influence from the Latin etymon (compare the older Southern US pronunciation of negro with /ɪ/), but compare the dialectal American pronunciations of eagle and eager as /ˈɪɡəl/ and /ˈɪɡɚ/.

чёрный

note: негр m (negr) and негритя́нка f (negritjánka) are neutral terms

حبشی

offensive if intended otherwise 'Male Ethiopian/Abyssian'

حبشن

offensive if intended otherwise 'Female Ethiopian/Abyssinian'

(now offensive) Any of various dark animals:

(UK, Cornwall, fishing, archaic) A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton-spinner.


cow

en-noun

cow (countable and uncountable, plural cows or cattle or (archaic or dialectal) kine)

cows (plural)
cattle (plural)
kine (archaic dialectal plural)

bull

antonym(s) of “female domesticated ox or other bovine”

Sranan Tongo: kaw

Tok Pisin: kau

q

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">cows</i>

→ Abenaki: kaoz (from cows)

→ Maori: kau

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Germanic *kōz
Proto-West Germanic *kō
Old English cū
Middle English cou
English cow
Inherited from Middle English cou, cu, from Old English cū (“cow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kō, from Proto-Germanic *kōz (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).
Cognate with Sanskrit गो (go), Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Persian گاو (gâv)), Latvian govs (“cow”), Proto-Slavic *govędo (Serbo-Croatian govedo, Russian говядина (govjadina, “beef”), Scots coo (“cow”), North Frisian ko, kø (“cow”), West Frisian ko (“cow”), Dutch koe (“cow”), Low German Koh, Koo, Kau (“cow”), German Kuh (“cow”), Swedish ko (“cow”), Norwegian ku (“cow”), Icelandic kýr (“cow”), Latin bōs (“ox, bull, cow”) (whence English beef), Armenian կով (kov, “cow”). Doublet of beef.
The plural kine is from Middle English kyne, kyn, kuin, kiin, kien (“cows”), either a double plural of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to modern kye + -en, or inherited from Old English cūna (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of cū (“cow”).

etymon

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free

(fishing, slang) A fish that is very large for its species, such as a large striped bass or large bluefin tuna.


red

Inherited from Old Spanish red, from Latin rēte (“net”). Cognate with English rete.

Si se consigue pescar a Dorregaray con cuarenta mil duretes, a Cástor Andéchaga con veinticinco mil, y a otros tales, habremos hecho más que cogiendo en la red a los bicharracos de menor cuantía.

1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13:


tuba

ms-noun

tuba (Jawi spelling توبا, plural tuba-tuba)

Indonesian: tuba

→ English: tuba

From Proto-Malayic *tuba, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubah, from Proto-Austronesian *tubah.
First attested in the Kota Kapur inscription, 686 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (tūva),

menubai [agent focus + causative benefactive]

ditubai [patient focus + causative benefactive]

(fishing) fish poison made from plant roots


cast

New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

cog

I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:

(fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.


fish

en-verb

fish (third-person singular simple present fishes, present participle fishing, simple past and past participle fished)

fishes (present singular third-person)
fishing (participle present)
fished (participle past)
fished (past)

From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fiskōn, from Proto-Germanic *fiskōną.

`What you need are frogs,' said the veteran. `Fish them at night. There's nothing like them on big cork floats.'

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 40:

(fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.


peruke

peruke (nominative singular)
perukkeet (nominative plural)
peruke (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeet (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeen (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeet (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeen (genitive singular)
perukkeiden (genitive plural)
perukkeitten (genitive plural)
peruketta (partitive singular)
perukkeita (partitive plural)
perukkeessa (inessive singular)
perukkeissa (inessive plural)
perukkeesta (elative singular)
perukkeista (elative plural)
perukkeeseen (illative singular)
perukkeisiin (illative plural)
perukkeihin (illative plural)
perukkeella (adessive singular)
perukkeilla (adessive plural)
perukkeelta (ablative singular)
perukkeilta (ablative plural)
perukkeelle (allative singular)
perukkeille (allative plural)
perukkeena (essive singular)
perukkeina (essive plural)
perukkeeksi (singular translative)
perukkeiksi (plural translative)
perukkeetta (abessive singular)
perukkeitta (abessive plural)
perukkein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
perukkeeni (nominative singular)
perukkeeni (nominative plural)
perukkeeni (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeeni (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeeni (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeeni (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeeni (genitive singular)
perukkeideni (genitive plural)
perukkeitteni (genitive plural)
perukettani (partitive singular)
perukkeitani (partitive plural)
perukkeessani (inessive singular)
perukkeissani (inessive plural)
perukkeestani (elative singular)
perukkeistani (elative plural)
perukkeeseeni (illative singular)
perukkeisiini (illative plural)
perukkeihini (illative plural)
perukkeellani (adessive singular)
perukkeillani (adessive plural)
perukkeeltani (ablative singular)
perukkeiltani (ablative plural)
perukkeelleni (allative singular)
perukkeilleni (allative plural)
perukkeenani (essive singular)
perukkeinani (essive plural)
perukkeekseni (singular translative)
perukkeikseni (plural translative)
perukkeettani (abessive singular)
perukkeittani (abessive plural)
perukkeineni (comitative plural)
perukkeesi (nominative singular)
perukkeesi (nominative plural)
perukkeesi (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeesi (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeesi (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeesi (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeesi (genitive singular)
perukkeidesi (genitive plural)
perukkeittesi (genitive plural)
perukettasi (partitive singular)
perukkeitasi (partitive plural)
perukkeessasi (inessive singular)
perukkeissasi (inessive plural)
perukkeestasi (elative singular)
perukkeistasi (elative plural)
perukkeeseesi (illative singular)
perukkeisiisi (illative plural)
perukkeihisi (illative plural)
perukkeellasi (adessive singular)
perukkeillasi (adessive plural)
perukkeeltasi (ablative singular)
perukkeiltasi (ablative plural)
perukkeellesi (allative singular)
perukkeillesi (allative plural)
perukkeenasi (essive singular)
perukkeinasi (essive plural)
perukkeeksesi (singular translative)
perukkeiksesi (plural translative)
perukkeettasi (abessive singular)
perukkeittasi (abessive plural)
perukkeinesi (comitative plural)
perukkeemme (nominative singular)
perukkeemme (nominative plural)
perukkeemme (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeemme (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeemme (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeemme (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeemme (genitive singular)
perukkeidemme (genitive plural)
perukkeittemme (genitive plural)
perukettamme (partitive singular)
perukkeitamme (partitive plural)
perukkeessamme (inessive singular)
perukkeissamme (inessive plural)
perukkeestamme (elative singular)
perukkeistamme (elative plural)
perukkeeseemme (illative singular)
perukkeisiimme (illative plural)
perukkeihimme (illative plural)
perukkeellamme (adessive singular)
perukkeillamme (adessive plural)
perukkeeltamme (ablative singular)
perukkeiltamme (ablative plural)
perukkeellemme (allative singular)
perukkeillemme (allative plural)
perukkeenamme (essive singular)
perukkeinamme (essive plural)
perukkeeksemme (singular translative)
perukkeiksemme (plural translative)
perukkeettamme (abessive singular)
perukkeittamme (abessive plural)
perukkeinemme (comitative plural)
perukkeenne (nominative singular)
perukkeenne (nominative plural)
perukkeenne (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeenne (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeenne (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeenne (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeenne (genitive singular)
perukkeidenne (genitive plural)
perukkeittenne (genitive plural)
perukettanne (partitive singular)
perukkeitanne (partitive plural)
perukkeessanne (inessive singular)
perukkeissanne (inessive plural)
perukkeestanne (elative singular)
perukkeistanne (elative plural)
perukkeeseenne (illative singular)
perukkeisiinne (illative plural)
perukkeihinne (illative plural)
perukkeellanne (adessive singular)
perukkeillanne (adessive plural)
perukkeeltanne (ablative singular)
perukkeiltanne (ablative plural)
perukkeellenne (allative singular)
perukkeillenne (allative plural)
perukkeenanne (essive singular)
perukkeinanne (essive plural)
perukkeeksenne (singular translative)
perukkeiksenne (plural translative)
perukkeettanne (abessive singular)
perukkeittanne (abessive plural)
perukkeinenne (comitative plural)
perukkeensa (nominative singular)
perukkeensa (nominative plural)
perukkeensa (accusative nominative singular)
perukkeensa (accusative nominative plural)
perukkeensa (accusative genitive singular)
perukkeensa (accusative genitive plural)
perukkeensa (genitive singular)
perukkeidensa (genitive plural)
perukkeittensa (genitive plural)
perukettaan (partitive singular)
perukettansa (partitive singular)
perukkeitaan (partitive plural)
perukkeitansa (partitive plural)
perukkeessaan (inessive singular)
perukkeessansa (inessive singular)
perukkeissaan (inessive plural)
perukkeissansa (inessive plural)
perukkeestaan (elative singular)
perukkeestansa (elative singular)
perukkeistaan (elative plural)
perukkeistansa (elative plural)
perukkeeseensa (illative singular)
perukkeisiinsa (illative plural)
perukkeihinsa (illative plural)
perukkeellaan (adessive singular)
perukkeellansa (adessive singular)
perukkeillaan (adessive plural)
perukkeillansa (adessive plural)
perukkeeltaan (ablative singular)
perukkeeltansa (ablative singular)
perukkeiltaan (ablative plural)
perukkeiltansa (ablative plural)
perukkeelleen (allative singular)
perukkeellensa (allative singular)
perukkeilleen (allative plural)
perukkeillensa (allative plural)
perukkeenaan (essive singular)
perukkeenansa (essive singular)
perukkeinaan (essive plural)
perukkeinansa (essive plural)
perukkeekseen (singular translative)
perukkeeksensa (singular translative)
perukkeikseen (plural translative)
perukkeiksensa (plural translative)
perukkeettaan (abessive singular)
perukkeettansa (abessive singular)
perukkeittaan (abessive plural)
perukkeittansa (abessive plural)
perukkeineen (comitative plural)
perukkeinensa (comitative plural)


west

west (nominative singular)
westë (nominative plural)
westu (genitive singular)
westów (genitive plural)
westowi (dative singular)
westóm (dative plural)
west (accusative singular)
westë (accusative plural)
westã (instrumental singular)
westama (instrumental plural)
wesce (locative singular)
westach (locative plural)
west (singular vocative)
wesce (singular vocative)
westë (plural vocative)


fresh

fresh (third-person singular simple present freshes, present participle freshing, simple past and past participle freshed)

freshes (present singular third-person)
freshing (participle present)
freshed (participle past)
freshed (past)

Grandwizard Theodore & the Fantastic Five

From Middle English fressh, from Old English fersċ (“fresh, pure, sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk (“fresh”), from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *preysk- (“fresh”). The verb is from Middle English freshen (“to freshen”), from the adjective.
Cognate with Scots fresch (“fresh”), West Frisian farsk (“fresh”), Dutch vers (“fresh”), Walloon frexh (“fresh”), German frisch (“fresh”), French frais (“fresh”), Norwegian and Danish frisk (“fresh”), fersk, Icelandic ferskur (“fresh”), Lithuanian prėskas (“unflavoured, tasteless, fresh”), Russian пре́сный (présnyj, “sweet, fresh, unleavened, tasteless”). Doublet of fresco and frisk.
Slang sense possibly shortened form of “fresh out the pack”, 1980s routine by Grand Wizzard Theodore.

cog

With the exception of about 1800 crans which were "rough packed," all the herrings landed during the winter months were freshed and kippered.

1921, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report - Volume 12:

Aided by government propaganda, herring became an important British war-time food, not pickled, but 'freshed' (packed loosely in ice) and kippered.

1960, Nigel Nicolson, Lord of the Isles: Lord Leverhulme of the Hebrides, page 84:

Smoked abalone is prepared by smoking the salted and freshed abalone, the smoked meat is packed with vegetable oil.

1971, Eiichi Tanikawa, Marine Products in Japan: Size, Technology and Research, page 189:

(commercial fishing) To pack (fish) loosely on ice.


not

head

not c or n (singular definite noten or notet, plural indefinite noter or not)

noten (definite singular)
notet (definite singular)
noter (indefinite plural)
not (indefinite plural)
not (indefinite nominative singular)
noten (definite nominative singular)
notet (definite nominative singular)
noter (indefinite nominative plural)
not (indefinite nominative plural)
noterne (definite nominative plural)
notene (definite nominative plural)
nots (genitive indefinite singular)
notens (definite genitive singular)
notets (definite genitive singular)
noters (genitive indefinite plural)
nots (genitive indefinite plural)
noternes (definite genitive plural)
notenes (definite genitive plural)


not

not f (definite singular nota, indefinite plural nøter, definite plural nøtene)

nota (definite singular)
nøter (indefinite plural)
nøtene (definite plural)
nót (alternative)

From Old Norse nót, from Proto-Germanic *nōtō (“net; seine”).


squid

en-verb

squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded)

squids (present singular third-person)
squidding (participle present)
squidded (participle past)
squidded (past)

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

(fishing) To fish with a squid fishhook.


GT

(fishing) Initialism of golden trevally.


draw

draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)

draws (present singular third-person)
drawing (participle present)
drew (past)
drawn (participle past)
drew (colloquial nonstandard participle past)
draw (infinitive)
draw (first-person present singular)
drew (first-person past singular)
draw (present second-person singular)
drawest (archaic present second-person singular)
drew (past second-person singular)
drewest (archaic past second-person singular)
draws (present singular third-person)
draweth (archaic present singular third-person)
drew (past singular third-person)
draw (plural present)
drew (past plural)
draw (present subjunctive)
drew (past subjunctive)
draw (imperative present)
drawing (participle present)
drawn (participle past)

The verb is derived from Middle English drauen, drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (“to carry; to haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry; to pull, draw”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). Doublet of drag and draught.
The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen (verb).
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage

vyluhovávat

of drinks: to leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase

изтеглям

cardgames: to take the top card of a deck into hand

every miller draws water to his own mill

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

(transitive, fishing) to haul in (a fishing net) which has been cast; also, to drag (a fishing net) alongside a boat.

Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

(transitive, fishing) To fish by dragging a fishing net along (a shore) or in (a body of water).


kaczka

pl-noun

kaczka f (male equivalent kaczor, diminutive kaczuszka or kaczeczka, related adjective kaczczany or kaczczy or kaczkowy)

kaczor (masculine)
kaczuszka (diminutive)
kaczeczka (diminutive)
kaczczany (adjective)
kaczczy (adjective)
kaczkowy (adjective)
kaczka (nominative singular)
kaczki (nominative plural)
kaczki (genitive singular)
kaczek (genitive plural)
kaczce (dative singular)
kaczkom (dative plural)
kaczkę (accusative singular)
kaczki (accusative plural)
kaczką (instrumental singular)
kaczkami (instrumental plural)
kaczce (locative singular)
kaczkach (locative plural)
kaczko (singular vocative)
kaczki (plural vocative)
kacka (alternative)

→ Low Prussian: Katschke

Inherited from Old Polish kaczka, from Proto-Slavic *kačьka, a West Slavic innovation of onomatopoeic origin (for the duck's cry, compare English quack for a similar formation) which replaced Proto-Slavic *ǫtь (“duck”) in West Slavic. Cognates include Czech kachna, kačka, and Slovak kačka, kačica.

(Kuyavia, fishing) certain part of a seine


tak

From Middle Scots tak, tacke, from Early Scots tak, from Middle English taken (“to take”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), a borrowing from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch”). Tak gradually displaced the native Middle English nimen (“to take”). Cognates include English take and Norn taka. The noun is partly from the verb and partly from Old Norse tak (“grip”) and/or taka (“taking, seizure”), via Middle English tak, take.


cork

en-verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

corks (present singular third-person)
corking (participle present)
corked (participle past)
corked (past)

From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.

der

Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.

1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 8:

But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets. Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense.

2003, George Lowe, Fisherman: The Strife and Times of Ronald K. Peterson of Ballard, →ISBN:

You're pissed if someone sets too close to you and especially if he sets his net right along yours, "corking" you and intercepting the fish that seem headed to your own net. I was close to this guy's outside net, but definitely not corking him.

2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, →ISBN, page 249:

(fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.


fly

From Middle English flye, flie, from Old English flȳġe, flēoge (“a fly”), from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ (“a fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”). Cognate with Scots flee, Saterland Frisian Fljooge, Dutch vlieg, German Low German Fleeg, German Fliege, Danish flue, Norwegian Bokmål flue, Norwegian Nynorsk fluge, Swedish fluga, Icelandic fluga.

you attract more flies with honey than vinegar

you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar

you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

you catch more flies with honey than vinegar

you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.

(fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.


fly

fly f (definite singular flya, indefinite plural flyer, definite plural flyene)

flya (definite singular)
flyer (indefinite plural)
flyene (definite plural)

Compare with flye n (“flying insect”) and English fly.


rod

From Middle English rodde, from Old English *rodd or *rodde (attested in dative plural roddum (“rod, pole”)), of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Germanic *rudd- (“stick, club”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewdʰ- (“to clear land”). Compare Old Norse rudda (“club”). For the root, compare English rid. Presumably unrelated to Proto-Germanic *rōdō (“rod, pole”).

When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.


spin

en-verb

spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past participle spun or (nonstandard) spinned)

spins (present singular third-person)
spinning (participle present)
spun (past)
span (past uncommon)
spinned (nonstandard past)
spun (participle past)
spinned (nonstandard participle past)

From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.

(fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.


stick

en-noun

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

From Middle English stiken (“to stick, pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, remain embedded, be fastened”), from Proto-Germanic *stikōną (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tig-, *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”).
See also the related Proto-Germanic *stikaną, whence West Frisian stekke, Low German steken, Dutch steken, German stechen; compare also Danish stikke, Swedish sticka.
Cognate with the first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French étiquette – see there for further discussion.

inh

Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.

2004, Simon Gawesworth, Spey Casting, →ISBN, page 47:

(uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

(fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.


strike

en-verb

strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck or (non-standard) striked or (all obsolete) strook or stroke or strake, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (both obsolete) strucken or strook)

strikes (present singular third-person)
striking (participle present)
struck (past)
striked (nonstandard past)
strook (obsolete past)
stroke (obsolete past)
strake (obsolete past)
struck (obsolete participle past)
stricken (obsolete participle past)
strucken (obsolete participle past)
strook (obsolete participle past)

→ German: streiken

From Middle English stryken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).
Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.

der

lightning does not strike twice in the same place

lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place

lightning never strikes twice in the same place

Of course, almost any fool could strike a fish if it lay quiet in very shallow water.

1894, Outing and the Wheelman, volume 24, page 56:

(transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.


strike

→ Danish: strike

→ Dutch: strike

→ French: strike

→ German: Strike

→ Italian: strike

→ Japanese: ストライク (sutoraiku)

→ Korean: 스트라이크 (seuteuraikeu)

→ Portuguese: strike

→ Russian: страйк (strajk)

→ Spanish: strike

→ Swedish: strike

→ Danish: strejke

→ Esperanto: striko

→ Hungarian: sztrájk

→ Japanese: ストライキ (sutoraiki)

desctree

→ German: Streik, Strike (obsolete, 19th c.)
→ Kashubian: sztrajk
→ Macedonian: штрајк (štrajk)
→ Serbo-Croatian: štrȁjk /штра̏јк
→ Slovak: štrajk

→ Polish: strajk
→ Belarusian: страйк (strajk)
→ Ukrainian: страйк (strajk)

→ Swedish: strejk

→ Welsh: streic

I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.

2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing, page 87:

(fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.


balance

→ Romanian: balanță

→ Russian: бала́нс (baláns)

→ Spanish: balance

→ Ukrainian: бала́нс (baláns)

Inherited from Middle French balance, from Old French balance, from Vulgar Latin *bilancia, from Latin bilanx, from bi- (see Latin bis) and lanx.


leader

→ Catalan: líder

→ Czech: lídr

→ Galician: líder

→ Japanese: リーダー (rīdā)

→ Korean: 리더 (rideo)

→ Polish: lider

→ Portuguese: líder

→ Romanian: lider

→ Russian: ли́дер (líder)

→ Spanish: líder

→ Turkish: lider

→ Ukrainian: лі́дер (líder)

From Middle English leder, ledere, from Old English lǣdere (“leader”), from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī (“leader”), equivalent to lead + -er. Cognate with Scots ledar, leidar (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

cog

Someone or something that leads or conducts.

(fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.

when two wheels geer together, the one which communicates the motion to the other is called the driver or leader; and the wheel impelled is the follower

1852, D. Gilbert, “Geering”, in Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering, page 786:

(fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.


mop

en-noun

mop (countable and uncountable, plural mops)

→ Canadian French: moppe

→ German: Mopp

→ Irish: mapa

→ Spanish: mopa

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

(fishing) A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.


бредень

ru-noun+

бре́день • (brédenʹ) m inan (genitive бре́дня, nominative plural бре́дни, genitive plural бре́дней)

бре́день (canonical)
brédenʹ (romanization)
бре́дня (genitive)
бре́дни (nominative plural)
бре́дней (genitive plural)
бре́день (nominative singular)
бре́дни (nominative plural)
бре́дня (genitive singular)
бре́дней (genitive plural)
бре́дню (dative singular)
бре́дням (dative plural)
бре́день (accusative singular)
бре́дни (accusative plural)
бре́днем (instrumental singular)
бре́днями (instrumental plural)
бре́дне (prepositional singular)
бре́днях (plural prepositional)

(fishing) small dragnet, seine (for use in shallow water)


бредень

uk-noun

бре́день<M.*>

бре́день • (brédenʹ) m inan (genitive бре́дня, nominative plural бре́дні, genitive plural бре́днів)

бре́день (canonical)
brédenʹ (romanization)
бре́дня (genitive)
бре́дні (nominative plural)
бре́днів (genitive plural)
бре́день (nominative singular)
бре́дні (nominative plural)
бре́дня (genitive singular)
бре́днів (genitive plural)
бре́дневі (dative singular)
бре́дню (dative singular)
бре́дням (dative plural)
бре́день (accusative singular)
бре́дні (accusative plural)
бре́днем (instrumental singular)
бре́днями (instrumental plural)
бре́дню (locative singular)
бре́дні (locative singular)
бре́днях (locative plural)
бре́дню (singular vocative)
бре́дні (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

бре́день<M.*>

Uk-бредень.ogg


бредник

ru-noun+

бре́дник • (brédnik) m inan (genitive бре́дника, nominative plural бре́дники, genitive plural бре́дников)

бре́дник (canonical)
brédnik (romanization)
бре́дника (genitive)
бре́дники (nominative plural)
бре́дников (genitive plural)
бре́дник (nominative singular)
бре́дники (nominative plural)
бре́дника (genitive singular)
бре́дников (genitive plural)
бре́днику (dative singular)
бре́дникам (dative plural)
бре́дник (accusative singular)
бре́дники (accusative plural)
бре́дником (instrumental singular)
бре́дниками (instrumental plural)
бре́днике (prepositional singular)
бре́дниках (plural prepositional)


ile

ile m (definite singular ilen, indefinite plural ilar, definite plural ilane)

ilen (definite singular)
ilar (indefinite plural)
ilane (definite plural)


liège

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *levius, from Latin levis (“light (in weight)”).


bullet

en-noun

bullet (countable and uncountable, plural bullets)

From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.


cop

Per GDLC, possibly from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom, lap; fabric fold; pocket”), with influence from copa (“cup”). First attested in 1324. In some senses (e.g. "snowflake"), influenced by Spanish copo (“flake”).

der

(fishing) catch bag (bag for holding caught fish, attached to a net)


cor

head

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural cora or coranna)

coir (genitive singular)
cora (nominative plural)
coranna (nominative plural)
cor (indefinite nominative singular)
cora (indefinite nominative plural)
a choir (indefinite singular vocative)
a chora (indefinite plural vocative)
coir (genitive indefinite singular)
cor (genitive indefinite plural)
cor (dative indefinite singular)
cora (dative indefinite plural)
an cor (definite nominative singular)
na cora (definite nominative plural)
an choir (definite genitive singular)
na gcor (definite genitive plural)
leis an gcor (dative definite singular)
don chor (dative definite singular)
leis na cora (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).


針

⟨pari⟩ → /ɸaɾi/ → /haɾi/
From Old Japanese 針 (pari).

any slender, pointed object resembling or similar in use to a needle:


ga

ga m (genitive singular ga or gaoi, nominative plural gathanna or gaoi or gaoithe)

ga (genitive singular)
gaoi (genitive singular)
gathanna (nominative plural)
gaoi (nominative plural)
gaoithe (nominative plural)
ga (indefinite nominative singular)
gathanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a gha (indefinite singular vocative)
a ghathanna (indefinite plural vocative)
ga (genitive indefinite singular)
gathanna (genitive indefinite plural)
ga (dative indefinite singular)
gathanna (dative indefinite plural)
an ga (definite nominative singular)
na gathanna (definite nominative plural)
an gha (definite genitive singular)
na ngathanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an nga (dative definite singular)
don gha (dative definite singular)
leis na gathanna (dative definite plural)
ga
gha
nga
gae (alternative)
gath (alternative)

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath, goth (“spear”) with the synonymous gae (“spear”), from Proto-Celtic *gaisos (“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

(obsolete, fishing) narrow barrel with a pole through it, used for winding a seine line while fishing


flu

flu n (definite singular fluet, indefinite plural flu, definite plural flua)

fluet (definite singular)
flu (indefinite plural)
flua (definite plural)

Related to the verb fly (“to fly”). The verb is derived from the noun.

(countable and uncountable, fishing) bait that is strewn out over the surface to attract fish


sail

en-noun

sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)

From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

We caught three sails today.


pole

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).

cog

poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)

not touch something with a ten-foot pole


seine

From Latin sagēna, from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”).


dress

en-verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

dresses (present singular third-person)
dressing (participle present)
dressed (past)
dressed (participle past)
drest (obsolete participle past)
dress (infinitive)
dress (first-person present singular)
dressed (first-person past singular)
dress (present second-person singular)
dressed (past second-person singular)
dresses (present singular third-person)
dressed (past singular third-person)
dress (plural present)
dressed (past plural)
dress (present subjunctive)
dressed (past subjunctive)
dress (imperative present)
dressing (participle present)
dressed (participle past)
drest (participle past)

→ Sranan Tongo: dresi

PIE word
 *dwís
The verb is from Middle English dressen, dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *directiare (“to guide, direct”). Doublet of direct.
The noun is derived from the verb.

aantrek

to put clothes on (oneself or someone, etc.) — see also clothe

self aantrek

to put on clothes — see also get dressed

koristaa

to adorn or ornament (something) — see also adorn, ornament

siistiä

to fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose — see also get ready

whakahuene

referring to preparing rough sawn timber

To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.

(fishing) To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.


tartan

en-noun

tartan (countable and uncountable, plural tartans)

→ Catalan: tartà

→ Scottish Gaelic: tartan

The noun is an unadapted borrowing from Scots tartan, from Old Scots tartane, tertane, probably from Old French tertaine, tiretaine (“cloth of wool mixed with cotton or linen”), probably from tiret (“kind of precious cloth”) + -aine modelled after futaine (“woven cloth made from cotton mixed with linen or silk”). Tiret is derived from tire (“kind of silk cloth”), from Medieval Latin tyrium (“cloth dyed with Tyrian purple”), a noun use of Latin tyrium, an inflection of tyrius (“of Tyre, Tyrian”), from Latin Tyrus (“Phoenician city of Tyre (in modern Lebanon)”) (from Ancient Greek Τῠ́ρος (Tŭ́ros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr) or 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives).
Another suggestion is that the Scots noun is from Middle English tartaryn (“rich cloth (probably silk) imported from the East, probably from China through Tartary”), from Old French (drap) tartarin (literally “cloth of Tartary”), from Medieval Latin Tartarīnus (“of Tartary or the Tatars”), from Latin Tartarus, Tatarus (“Tatar person”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that tartarin referred to a more expensive fabric.
Noun sense 2.2 (“type of fly used in fly fishing”) may refer to its use in Scotland: see the 1837 quotation. Sense 2.3 (“young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Northern Ireland”) is from the fact that they were traditionally supporters of Rangers Football Club based in Glasgow, Scotland.
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, while the verb is also derived from the noun.

طرطان

woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders

What is called the tartan-fly kills well in the Highlands at the clearing of the water. The tail must be yellow, mixed with a little red; and tipt with silver-thread; the body must be of five or six different colours, yellow, blue, orange, green, red, and black; the colours must join; […]

1837, John Kirkbride, “Salmon-fishing”, in The Northern Angler; or, Fly-fisher’s Companion, Carlisle, Cumbria: C[harles] Thurnam; London: Edwards, […]; [Charles] Tilt, […], →OCLC, page 73:

(countable, fishing) A type of fly used in fly fishing, often to catch salmon.


frog

frogs (plural)
frock (alternative dialectal)
frosk (alternative dialectal)
frosh (alternative dialectal)

→ Esperanto: frogo

→ Hawaiian: poloka

→ Irish: frog

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, from Proto-West Germanic *froggō (“frog”). Cognate with Old Norse frauki.
Possibly related to Saterland Frisian Poage (“frog”), German Low German Pogg, Pogge (“frog”).
Sense 5 is a calque of Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos).

calque

squirrel tree frog (Dryophytes squirellus

(fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.


underwater

underwaters (plural)
under water (alternative)
under-water (alternative)

/ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underwater.wav

Practically all wobbling underwaters will take fish aplenty in the hands of a man who really knows how to put them through their stints.

1923, Sheridan R. Jones, Bait Casting: The Short Rod and How to Use It, page 57:

(fishing) A type of lure which lies beneath the water surface.


gig

The noun is derived from a clipping of fishgig, fizgig, possibly from Spanish fisga (“harpoon”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

On toward dusk some little gypsy boys whittled gigs from river-birch limbs and went to a backwater and gigged frogs until they had a basketful.

1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 122:

(fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).


gig

en-verb

gig (third-person singular simple present gigs, present participle gigging, simple past and past participle gigged)

gigs (present singular third-person)
gigging (participle present)
gigged (participle past)
gigged (past)

(transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.

(intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.


leger

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

legers (present singular third-person)
legering (participle present)
legered (participle past)
legered (past)

/ˈlɛd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when Legering for Barbel, […]

1864, “Otter” [pseudonym; H. Jervis Alfred], “Eel, Lamprey and Lampern”, in The Modern Angler, Containing Instructions in the Art of Fly-fishing, Spining and Bottom-fishing, […], London: Alfred & Son, […], →OCLC, part I, page 68:

Messrs. E. Frost and Tomkins, at Monkey Island, in two days, caught 80 lbs. weight of chub, dace, and roach with the fly and cheese paste, and in legering a trout of 2¼ lbs.

1878, “The Fishing Season”, in Once a Week, volume VIII (Fourth Series), London: Published at the offices, 19, Tavistock Street, W.C., →OCLC, page 95, column 1:

The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.

1997, Paul Gustafson, “Rigs”, in How to Catch Bigger Pike from Rivers, Lochs and Lakes, London: Collins Willow, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN; republished as How to Catch Big Pike: All the Insight and Technique You Need to Catch Bigger Pike, whatever the Location, London: Robinson, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2016, →ISBN, page 160:

The flounder spends its life between the tideline and the 25 to 30 fathoms mark, but they are often caught several miles upstream in freshwater rivers by anglers legering worms or gentles.

1998, Martin James, “Flounder”, in Paul Morgan, editor, Saltwater Flyfishing: Britain and Northern Europe, Machynlleth, Powys: Coch-y-Bonddu Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 156:

(ambitransitive, British, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”).


nymph

nymph (third-person singular simple present nymphs, present participle nymphing, simple past and past participle nymphed)

nymphs (present singular third-person)
nymphing (participle present)
nymphed (participle past)
nymphed (past)
nymphe (alternative archaic rare)

From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.

Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]

2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253:

(fishing) To fish using a nymph larva as bait.


bab

The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.

2006 February 1, John Meiklejohn, “Babbing for eels”, in BBC - WW2 People's War:

(fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.


bab

bab (third-person singular simple present babs, present participle babbing, simple past and past participle babbed)

babs (present singular third-person)
babbing (participle present)
babbed (participle past)
babbed (past)

The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.

1884, George Christopher Davies, Norfolk Broads and Rivers, W. Blackwood and sons, page 244:

Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.

1948, William Guy, Mostly Memories: Some Digressions, C. J. Cousland, page 24:

Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.

(intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.


cinta

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

(fishing) a kind of net that is set vertically in the sea

(fishing) a kind of boat using such a vertical net


torch

torch (third-person singular simple present torches, present participle torching, simple past and past participle torched)

torches (present singular third-person)
torching (participle present)
torched (participle past)
torched (past)

The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche); further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”) (referring to a torch made from twisted plant fibres dipped in a flammable substance such as pitch), from Latin torqua, a variant of torquis (“collar of twisted metal, torque; wreath”), from torqueō (“to twist, wind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
Sense 2.3 (Verbascum thapsus) is either due to the plant’s spike of yellow flowers, or because its leaves and stalks were used to make torches (noun sense 1). Sense 3.2 (“precious cause, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others”) is derived from Latin lampada trādere, from Ancient Greek λᾰμπᾰ́δᾰ πᾰρᾰδιδόναι (lămpắdă părădidónai, “to hand over the torch”), a reference to the torch race held at various festivals such as the Panathenaic Games in Ancient Greece, which involved a relay where a torch was passed from one runner to another.
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

λᾰμπᾰ́δᾰ πᾰρᾰδιδόναι

(US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.

kalastaa soihdunvalossa

to catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight


chopstick

chopsticks (plural)
chop-stick (alternative)

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Apparently a compound of chop + stick, but the sense of the first element is not clear. The eating utensil sense (attested since 1637) is presumably a transfer of sense from the earlier fishing tackle sense (attested from 1615), based on physical resemblance.
The common derivation from Chinese Pidgin English chop(-chop) (“quick”), a supposed calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài, “quick”), is chronologically impossible as Chinese Pidgin English did not come into existence until the 18th century.

der

I pray pardon me for that Capt' Adams' hast to goe downe causeth me to be breefer then I would, wishing you to luffe as fast as you can in the heigh of hogg faces, for these climates of Meaco yeald nothinge but shirrow & chopp-stickes.

1615 October 23, Richard Wickham, letter; in Anthony Farrington, editor, The English Factory in Japan, 1613-1623: Volume I, London: The British Library, 1991, page 330:

The Fisherman has a Line of 90 Fathom long, or more, with a Lead at the end of it called a Deep-sea-lead, of about 6 or 7 pounds weight, to sink it; above which is a cross-stick, termed a Chop-stick, with 2 Lines and Hooks at them, with Baits[.]

1726, Nathan Bailey, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum and Botanicum, London: James and John Knapton et al., page s.v. Iceland:

The spreader is passed through the hole in the sinker, c, until its centre is reached, when the edges of the holes must be closed in tightly with a small hammer, which will, if properly done, retain the spreader securely in its place. This arrangement is generally known amongst fishermen as a set of "chop-sticks."

1862, W.B. Lord, Sea Fish and How to Catch Them, London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., page 44:

One great advantage of this rig is that the lead and its appendage are always hauled up endways, thus offering less opposition to the water than those fitted with the different chop-sticks.

1905, P. L. Haslope, Practical Sea-fishing: A Handbook for Sea Anglers, London: L. Upcott Gill, page 30:

(obsolete, fishing) A long straight stick forming part of various fishing tackle arrangements.


propeller

propellers (plural)
propellor (alternative nonstandard rare)

→ Dutch: propeller

→ German: Propeller

→ Swedish: propeller


spoon

From Middle English spoon, spoune, spone, spon (“spoon, chip of wood”), from Old English spōn (“sliver, chip of wood, shaving”), from Proto-West Germanic *spānu, from Proto-Germanic *spēnuz (“chip, flake, shaving”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- (“chip, shaving, log, length of wood”).
Cognate with Scots spun, spon (“spoon, shingle”), West Frisian spoen, Dutch spaan (“chip, flinders”), German Span (“chip, flake, shaving”), Swedish spån (“chip, flake”), Norwegian Nynorsk spon (“chip, spoon”), Faroese spónur (“wood chip; spoon”), Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”)(though the connection to the Greek is likely impossible by modern reconstructions of PIE). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cuculer, coclear (“spoon”), from Old English cuculer, cuceler, cucler, borrowed from Latin cochlear (“spoon”).
The "metaphoric unit of personal energy" sense was coined by writer and disability advocate Christine Miserandino in 2003 (see spoon theory).

coinage

he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon

(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.


tunge

tunge m (definite singular tungen, indefinite plural tungar, definite plural tungane)

tungen (definite singular)
tungar (indefinite plural)
tungane (definite plural)

From Old Norse þungi, from the adjective tung (“heavy”) (Old Norse þungr).


kai

From Proto-Polynesian *kai. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻai and Samoan 'ai.


sockdolager

sockdolagers (plural)
socdolager (alternative)
sockdologer (alternative)
sogdolloger (alternative)

[ˌsɑkˈdɑːɫ.ə.d͡ʒɚ]

Unknown, 1827 US, presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit”); compare contemporary fanciful American coinages.
Various speculative etymologies have been suggested, such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality”.

(US, fishing) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.


plu

cy-noun

plu f (collective, singulative pluen or plufen)

pluen (singulative)
plufen (singulative)
plu
blu (soft)
mhlu
phlu
pluf (alternative)

From Middle Welsh pluf, from Proto-Brythonic *plʉβ̃, a borrowing from Latin plūma (“feather”). Cognate with Cornish pluv, Breton pluñv.

plu'r gweinydd

common cottongrass, Erophorum angustifolium


haaf

From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

The banks to which they repair for the haaf fishing, are often many miles distant from the station where the fish is dried; so that they are always twenty or thirty hours absent, frequently longer; and under unfavourable circumstances of wind and tide, they remain at sea, with a very small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days, and are sometimes heard of no more.

1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

The haaf-boat was as well maintained as any vessel in the islands; her master had a reputation for thoroughness, for all he was barely twenty years of age.

2003, Juliet Marillier, Foxmask (Saga of the Light Isles; 2), page 28:

(fishing, Shetland, Scotland) the open sea, especially as a place to fish

Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.

2005, James Coull, “7: The development of fishing communities with special reference to Scotland”, in Jonathan Potts, Hance D. Smith, editors, Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future, page 145:

(fishing, Shetland) the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk


haaf

haaff (alternative)
haf (alternative)
haff (alternative)

(fishing, Shetland) the deep-sea fishing carried out 30-40 miles offshore in open boats

(fishing, Northern Isles) deep-sea fishing, especially for cod, ling, tusk, etc.


part

Borrowed from German Part(e), from Middle High German part, from Old French part, from Latin pars.

(regional, fishing) share of the catch for each fisherman


noodle

en-verb

noodle (third-person singular simple present noodles, present participle noodling, simple past and past participle noodled)

noodles (present singular third-person)
noodling (participle present)
noodled (participle past)
noodled (past)

Unknown; perhaps related to guddle (“to catch (fish) with the hands”).

Fred had several lacerations on his hands from noodling flathead in the river.

(transitive, fishing) To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.


lima

(fishing) a reinforced line at both ends of a dragnet


madre

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).

(fishing) main line (in longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached)


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

(fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.


mosca

it-noun

mosca f (plural mosche, diminutive moschétta or moschìna or moschìno m or moschettìna, augmentative (uncommon) moscóna, pejorative moscàccia)

mosche (plural)
moschétta (diminutive)
moschìna (diminutive)
moschìno (diminutive masculine)
moschettìna (diminutive)
moscóna (augmentative uncommon)
moscàccia (pejorative)

From Latin musca, from a Proto-Indo-European root *mus-, *mu-, *mew-. Compare Spanish mosca.

Nell’arte della pesca, diconsi mosche certi insetti fittizi fatti alla buona per servire d’esca ai pesci.

1833, Nuovo dizionario universale tecnologico o di arti e mestieri - Tomo Ⅷ [New universal technological dictionary, or of arts and crafts - Volume 8], Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli ed., Mosca, page 461:

In the art of fishing, flies are a kind of improvised fake insects, made to serve as a lure for fish.

Premetto che se volete imparare a lanciare, non dovete pretendere di andare vicino all’acqua, montare la canna, attaccare la mosca e mettervi a pescare.

1981, Carlo Cotta Ramusino, “Capitolo Ⅶ - Tecnica di lancio [Chapter 7 - Throwing technique]”, in Pesca a mosca: canne, lenze, mulinelli, setali, mosche, lanci da pesca e da gara, page 195:

I have to preface that, if you wish to learn to throw [the line], you mustn't expect to just go near water, assemble the rod, attach the fly, and start fishing.

(by extension, figurative):
(fishing) fly (lure)


structure

en-noun

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

[ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]

From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

der

There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.

(fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish


lance

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.


plug

→ Gulf Arabic: بلاك (blāk)

→ Burmese: ပလတ် (pa.lat)

→ Japanese: プラグ (puragu)

From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

unk

unknown

cog

The fisherman cast the plug into a likely pool, hoping to catch a whopper.

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.


blitz

en-noun

blitz (countable and uncountable, plural blitzes)

Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).

der

(fishing) An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.


gorge

From Middle English gorge (“esophagus, gullet; throat; bird's crop; food in a hawk's crop; food or drink that has been eaten”), a borrowing from Old French gorge (“throat”) (modern French gorge (“throat; breast”)), from Vulgar Latin *gorga, *gurga, from Latin gurges (“eddy, whirlpool; gulf; sea”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour, swallow; to eat”). The English word is cognate with Galician gorxa (“throat”), Italian gorga, gorgia (“gorge, ravine; (obsolete) throat”), Occitan gorga, gorja, Portuguese gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”), Spanish gorja (“gullet, throat; gorge”). Doublet of gour.

cog

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Hooks of willow wood or bone (often from wishbone) and copper gorges (thin bipointed rods with a fishline attachment in the middle) could be baited with fish scrap or meat.

2001, Frederick Matthew Wiseman, “The Land Becomes Warm: The Years of the Log Ships (6,500 to 1,000 Winters Ago)”, in The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, pages 44–45:

Examining this piece of worked stone, which once belonged to a prehistoric man living in that valley, we find it fairly well polished, though the action of countless years has slightly "weathered" or disintegrated its once smooth surface. In the center, a groove has been cut, and the ends of the stone rise slightly from the middle. It is rather crescent-shaped. It must have been tied to a line, and this stone gorge was covered with a bait; the fish swallowed it, and, the gorge coming crosswise with the gullet, the fish was captured. […] In the Swiss lakes are found the remains of the Lacustrine dwellers. Among the many implements discovered are fish-gorges made of bronze wire. When these forms are studied, the fact must be recognized at once that they follow, in shape and principle of construction, the stone gorges of the Neolithic period.

2010, Barnet Phillips, “The Primitive Fish-hook”, in Nick Lyons, editor, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, part I (Early Days—of It and Us), page 7:

(fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.


balk

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).

der

(fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.


canna

→ English: canna

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm, “reed”).

canna da pesca


dun

We have besides for this Month a little Dun call'd a whirling Dun (though it is not the whirling Dun indeed, which is one of the best Flies we have) and for this the dubbing must be of the bottom fur of a Squirrels tail and the wing of the grey feather of a Drake.

1676, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler. Being Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, London: Richard Marriott, and Henry Brome, →OCLC, March, page 59:

(countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.


filet

→ Turkish: file

Inherited from Old French filé (past participle of filer), with change of suffix.


hackle

en-noun

hackle (countable and uncountable, plural hackles)

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From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

(fishing) A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.


jig

Unknown. Derivation from Middle English gyge (“fiddle”), from Old French gigue (“a fiddle”) has been proposed, but the connection and sense development are obscure. The sense “a type of dance” of modern French gigue is borrowed from English.

They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.


jig

en-verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

jigs (present singular third-person)
jigging (participle present)
jigged (participle past)
jigged (past)


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

(fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.


mete

mete (indefinite nominative singular)
metes (genitive indefinite singular)
metet (definite nominative singular)
metets (definite genitive singular)
meten (indefinite nominative plural)
metens (genitive indefinite plural)
metena (definite nominative plural)
metenas (definite genitive plural)


popper

en-noun

popper (countable and uncountable, plural poppers)

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop + -er (suffix forming agent noun).
Sense 8 ("capsule of amyl nitrite") is derived fro the popping sound when the capsule is broken open; from which sense 9 also derives.

(fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.


sima

From Proto-Philippine *símaq (“barb of a hook”).

inh

small, triangularly framed dip net (used for catching shrimp and fish from a fish shelter)

cover pot for catching fish (similar to a salakab)

catching of shrimp and fish with such a tool


creel

From Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. Alternatively, this word may have originally been of Scottish origin.

Return with a creel of trout for supper.

1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 6:

Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,
 Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers

A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:

(fishing) An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

Wily carp are quickly put on their guard by tight lines cutting through the water, so another common measure is to use a back lead to keep the line on the deck.

2012, Peter Kaminsky, Greg Schwipps, “Part IV: Now You're Fishing”, in Fishing for Dummies, UK edition, Adapted by Dominic Garnett, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., page 298:

(British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.


sedge

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(fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.


shack

en-noun

shack (countable and uncountable, plural shacks)

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).

(fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.


sliver

From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).

треска

long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment

(fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.


snag

en-verb

snag (third-person singular simple present snags, present participle snagging, simple past and past participle snagged)

snags (present singular third-person)
snagging (participle present)
snagged (participle past)
snagged (past)

From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”).
Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).

cog

We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.

(fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.

さびく

fishing: to fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

(fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.


troll

en-verb

troll (third-person singular simple present trolls, present participle trolling, simple past and past participle trolled)

trolls (present singular third-person)
trolling (participle present)
trolled (participle past)
trolled (past)
troll (infinitive)
troll (first-person present singular)
trolled (first-person past singular)
troll (present second-person singular)
trollest (archaic present second-person singular)
trolled (past second-person singular)
trolledst (archaic past second-person singular)
trolls (present singular third-person)
trolleth (archaic present singular third-person)
trolled (past singular third-person)
troll (plural present)
trolled (past plural)
troll (present subjunctive)
trolled (past subjunctive)
troll (imperative present)
trolling (participle present)
trolled (participle past)
trowl (alternative)
trowle (alternative)

Spanish: trolear

The verb is derived from Middle English trollen (“to go about, wander; to move (something) to and fro, rock; to roll; to turn”) [and other forms], of uncertain origin; perhaps in part from Old French troller (“to run here and there; to walk aimlessly, ramble, stroll; (hunting) to wander about looking for game”) (modern French troller); further etymology uncertain, yet probably from or related to Middle High German trollen (“to stroll, walk with short strides”) (modern German trollen (“to move slowly, trundle; to push off, toddle off”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to step on, tread”) (see further at etymology 1). Doublet of trull.
Verb sense 4.2.2 (“to fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat”) is possibly influenced by trail and/or trawl.
The noun is probably derived from the verb. Noun sense 4 (“person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument”) is possibly influenced by troll (etymology 1).
Cognates
* Middle Low German drullen (“to stroll”) (Low German trullen (“to troll”))

unc

uncertain

laulaa vuoroin

(transitive, intransitive) to sing the parts of (a catch, round, or similar song) in succession

laulella

to sing (a song) freely or in a carefree way, or loudly

tokaista

(transitive, intransitive) to say (something) lightly and quickly

kalastama

(transitive, intransitive) to fish in (a place) using a running fishing line

Chearful at morn he vvakes from ſhort repoſe, / Breaſts the keen air, and carrols as he goes; / VVith patient angle trolls the finny deep, / Or drives his vent'rous plovv-ſhare to the ſteep.

1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 10:

(fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun sense 8.1)).

I, nor chuſe to bear / The thieviſh nightly net, not barbed ſpear: / Nor drain I ponds the golden carp to take, / Nor trovvle for pikes, diſpeoplers of the lake.

1713, John Gay, “Rural Sports. A Georgic. Inscribed to Mr. [Alexander] Pope.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Bernard Lintot, […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 16, lines 261–264:

My flies alone disturbed the placid waters. A half-grown-up lad, who was standing behind me on the bank, advised me to "troll with bait"—a cluster of worms fastened to the hook, which is dragged in jerks over the surface of the water—and offered to find the bait for me.

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Legends of the Mill”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 153:

(fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.

Senses relating to fishing.
To fish using a running fishing line.

Their young men […] trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.

1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

(fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.


troll

→ Korean: 트롤 (teurol)

→ Spanish: trol

→ Ukrainian: троль (trolʹ)

→ Welsh: trol (“cart”)

unc

uncertain

An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.

vetouistelu

A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.


chugger

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-chugger.wav

(fishing) A type of fish lure or fly that makes a popping or chugging sound when twitched.


clip

→ Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)

→ Portuguese: clipe

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

inh

(fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.


swivel

en-noun

swivel (countable and uncountable, plural swivels)

From Middle English swyvel, swivel, from a derivative of Old English swīfan (“to revolve”), + -el, an instrumental suffix, equivalent to swive + -el.

(fishing) A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.


RSA

RSA (countable and uncountable, plural RSAs)

(fishing) Initialism of recreational sea angler.


gentle

[ˈd͡ʒɛ̃ɾ̃l̩]

From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“[Roman] clan”). Doublet of gentile, genteel, and jaunty.

der

Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles

1846, Douglas William Jerrold, “The History of St. Giles and St. James”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Years ago, on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, the recognised bait for garfish were `gentles', a genteel word for maggots, which were especially grown for gar fishermen.

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:

(fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.


northern

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn.
Morphologically north + -ern.

As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast eggs over several hundred yards.

1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly: The Flyfishing Guide to Northerns, Tigers, and Muskies:


dap

en-verb

dap (third-person singular simple present daps, present participle dapping, simple past and past participle dapped)

daps (present singular third-person)
dapping (participle present)
dapped (participle past)
dapped (past)

Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.

(fishing) To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.


von

von f (definite singular vona, indefinite plural voner, definite plural vonene)

vona (definite singular)
voner (indefinite plural)
vonene (definite plural)

From Old Norse ván, vón, ón, from Proto-Germanic *wēniz.

(fishing) a place where one hopes to make a good catch


bubo

From Proto-Philippine *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu₂. Cognate with Amis fofo, Ilocano bobo, Cebuano bubu, Malagasy vovo, Malay bubu, Bilba bufu, Buli (Indonesia) pup, and Pohnpeian uu.


bubo

act of frightening and driving away a flock of birds

sudden flight of birds (after being frightened and driven away)


bubo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqbuq (“pour”). Cognate with Kapampangan bubu, Cebuano bubu, and Javanese ꦧꦸꦧꦸꦃ (bubuh, “put in by accident”).


minnow

minnows (plural)
minnie (alternative)
minny (alternative)
minow (alternative)
menow (alternative)
menoe (alternative)

The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”).
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Middle Low German mone, möne (Dutch meun, West Frisian meun)
* Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (modern German Münne (“minnow”))
* Latin mēna (“small sea-fish”)

cog

[…] I have (which I will show you) an artificial minnow, that will catch a trout as well as an artificial fly, and it was made by a handsome woman that had a fine hand, and a live minnow lying by her: […]

1676, Izaak Walton, “[The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Part I […].] More Directions How to Fish for, and How to Make for the Trout an Artificial Minnow and Flies; with Some Merriment.”, in Richard Le Gallienne, editor, The Compleat Angler, 5th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 1897, →OCLC, page 107:

(fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.


minnow

en-verb

minnow (third-person singular simple present minnows, present participle minnowing, simple past and past participle minnowed)

minnows (present singular third-person)
minnowing (participle present)
minnowed (participle past)
minnowed (past)

To fish for minnows (noun sense 1 and subsenses).

To fish, especially for trout, using minnows as bait.


opener

(fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.


flatline

flatlines (plural)
flat line (alternative)

From flat + line. Refers to a continuous straight line (asystole) on an ECG (EKG) or EEG, indicating death.

(fishing) A line that is run low to the water from the rod tip, generally off a release clip of some type.


flatline

flatline (third-person singular simple present flatlines, present participle flatlining, simple past and past participle flatlined)

flatlines (present singular third-person)
flatlining (participle present)
flatlined (participle past)
flatlined (past)

(fishing, intransitive) To fish using a flatline.


kipper

en-adj

kipper (comparative more kipper, superlative most kipper)

more kipper (comparative)
most kipper (superlative)

From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.

inh

These were kipper salmon, and an acquaintance of mine living at Burton Rowbottom who was trolling for pike at Yoxall, near to King's Bromley, got a run, five years ago, and caught a beautiful salmon weighting 25 lbs.

1861, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 23, page 523:

the milner of Brignall for that he doth usually keep in the back beck a fishlock in the river called Gill Beck, below his mill and the forebeck of another fishlock [sic] above the mill, whereby he taketh and destroyeth much fish, to wit —routs, at his pleasure, and taketh, etc. divers fish when they are kipper and out of season;

1888, Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (North Riding of Yorkshire), John Christopher Atkinson, Quarter Sessions Records - Volume 6, page 43:

Walton next tells us that the he-salmon is usually bigger than the spawner; that he is more kipper and less able to endure a winter in the fresh water than she is, yet she is, at that time of looking less kipper and better, as watery and as bad meat.'

1898, Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, The Salmon, page 15:

Three weeks ago 25 per cent of the salmon running were kipper salmon.

1923, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Journal. Appendix, page 17:

(fishing, especially of salmon) Out of season.


glory hole

(Canada, fishing) An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.


spod

Origin unknown; possibly related to English spud, in the sense of a potato.

(fishing) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.


spod

en-verb

spod (third-person singular simple present spods, present participle spodding, simple past and past participle spodded)

spods (present singular third-person)
spodding (participle present)
spodded (participle past)
spodded (past)


whiff

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

inh

(fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.


lure

lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger)

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).

(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.


tackle

en-noun

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.

der

(fishing, uncountable) Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.


chum

Originally American English, from the 1850s. Perhaps from Powhatan.

The whale’s floating body also forms a chum slick on the surface—a trail of blood, oil, and chunks of fat and flesh that might stretch for miles across the water. […] This chum slick is what attracts sharks from afar. Seabirds are drawn to it too.

2021 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “A Gruesome Feeding Frenzy in the Atlantic Ocean”, in The Atlantic:

Most of us have seen the movie “Jaws”. Sheriff Brody is complaining about being the lucky one in charge of creating a chum line out of the back of the boat. The bucket is full of an awful combination of fish parts and blood. As he ladles scoop after scoop into the ocean, clearly, it was ^([sic]) working…

2020, “The Best Methods to Go Chumming”, in Bait Binder, Coastal Baits, LLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-27:

(fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.


chum

en-verb

chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle chummed)

chums (present singular third-person)
chumming (participle present)
chummed (participle past)
chummed (past)

He began to chum for sharks, using whale oil and chopped whale meat.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 176:

Small live baitfish are effective, and they will take bits of fresh cut fish when chummed strongly.

1996, Frank Sargeant, The Reef Fishing Book: A Complete Anglers Guide:

(fishing, ambitransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.


cerco

From Old Galician-Portuguese cerco (“circle”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin circus. Cognate with Portuguese cerco and Spanish cerco.


solar

ca-verb

solar (first-person singular present solo, first-person singular preterite solí, past participle solat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

solar (canonical)
root stress: (canonical)
ɔ (canonical)
solo (first-person present singular)
solí (first-person preterite singular)
solat (participle past)
solar (infinitive)
solant (gerund)
solat (masculine participle past singular)
solada (feminine participle past singular)
solats (masculine participle past plural)
solades (feminine participle past plural)
solo (first-person indicative present singular)
soles (indicative present second-person singular)
sola (indicative present singular third-person)
solem (first-person indicative plural present)
soleu (indicative plural present second-person)
solen (indicative plural present third-person)
solava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
solaves (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
solava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
solàvem (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
solàveu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
solaven (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
solaré (first-person future indicative singular)
solaràs (future indicative second-person singular)
solarà (future indicative singular third-person)
solarem (first-person future indicative plural)
solareu (future indicative plural second-person)
solaran (future indicative plural third-person)
solí (first-person indicative preterite singular)
solares (indicative preterite second-person singular)
solà (indicative preterite singular third-person)
solàrem (first-person indicative plural preterite)
solàreu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
solaren (indicative plural preterite third-person)
solaria (conditional first-person indicative singular)
solaries (conditional indicative second-person singular)
solaria (conditional indicative singular third-person)
solaríem (conditional first-person indicative plural)
solaríeu (conditional indicative plural second-person)
solarien (conditional indicative plural third-person)
soli (first-person present singular subjunctive)
solis (present second-person singular subjunctive)
soli (present singular subjunctive third-person)
solem (first-person plural present subjunctive)
soleu (plural present second-person subjunctive)
solin (plural present subjunctive third-person)
solés (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
solessis (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
solés (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
soléssim (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
soléssiu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
solessin (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sola (imperative second-person)
soli (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular)
solem (first-person imperative plural)
soleu (imperative plural second-person)
solin (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically)
no solis (imperative negative second-person)
no soli (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular)
no solem (first-person imperative negative plural)
no soleu (imperative negative plural second-person)
no solin (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically)

(transitive, fishing) to weigh down (rigging) (on the seabed or riverbed by means of stones or lead weights)


vaca

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.


sideboard

Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.

2012, Federal Register - Volume 77, Issue 50, page 15226:

(fishing) A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.


drifter

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-drifter.wav

(fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.

(fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.


leister

From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster.

refn

From the collection of the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

cog

The methods of catching the ſalmon in this pariſh are ſimilar to thoſe deſcribed in the ſtatiſtical account of Dornock, p. 15. excepting that there is no raiſe-net fiſhing, and that the leiſter is only about 10 or 12 feet long, conſequently better calculated for throwing to any diſtance.

1792, William Wright, “Number XII. Parish of Newabbey. (Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.)”, in John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland. […], volume II, Edinburgh: Printed and sold by William Creech; [et al.], →OCLC, footnote, pages 132–133:

Rob Runchy, as a forlorn hope, once threw his clodding leister at a drowning man floating down the Yarrow in a high flood, and hauled him out with the lyams unharmed.

1843, William Scrope, chapter IX, in Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 199–200:

Andy, who had been a moment behind getting his leister out of the fish he had killed, came up, and both he and Jock made several random strokes, when Jock, in his eagerness, slipped his foot, and fell headforemost into the water, the leister flying from his hand just as I caught sight of the fish they were after, lying close in to the bank; […]

1850, “Agricola” [pseudonym], “‘Burning the Water’—A Tweedside Sketch”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume 116, London: Published at the office, 34, Norfolk Street, Strand, →OCLC, page 57:

Old Sandy fished down the river, but he could kill no more salmon that night, […] He missed one; wounded another on the tail; and struck a third on the rigback, where no leister can pierce a fish, till he made him spring above water.

1865, “the Ettrick Shepherd” [pseudonym; James Hogg], Thomas Thomson, “The Siege of Roxburgh”, in The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd. […], new edition, volume I, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, […], →OCLC, chapter VII, page 632, column 1:

The leister is a spear composed of four or more barbed prongs, something like the manure fork or graip of the agriculturist, and firmly fixed to a light straight pole about twelve or fourteen feet in length. […] The leisterer looks into the river to find a fish, he spears it if he can and must keep it from wriggling off his leister after it is pierced.

1878 April 26, “a special correspondent” [pseudonym], “River Poaching on the Borders.—No. IV.”, in The Fishing Gazette, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, →OCLC, page 194, column 1:

Although leisters and harpoons cannot be called the most important implement in the fishing economy of the North American Indians, they are probably of more value as evidence of culture-historical movements than most of the other fishing artifacts, and for two reasons.

1952, University of California Publications in Geography, volume 9, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108:

The shaft parts taper slightly upwards, have rounded outer surfaces and flat or slightly concave inner surfaces which are adapted to the shape of the leister pole.

2004, Jørgen Skaarup, “Artefacts”, in Jørgen Skaarup, Ole Grøn, translated by Anne Bloch Jøorgensen and David Earle Robinson, Møllegabet II: A Submerged Mesolithic Settlement in Southern Denmark (BAR International Series; 1328), Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2018-12-20, section V.a.4.2 (Leister Prongs), page 88, column 2:

These Aborigines possessed the entire Tasmanian toolkit plus hundreds of additional specialized tools, including a fine array of bone tools, leisters, spear throwers, boomerangs, mounted adzes (for wood working), many multipart tools, a variety of nets for birds, fish, and wallabies, sewn-bark canoes with paddles, string bags, ground-edge axes, and wooden bowls for drinking.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 12, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(fishing) A spear armed with three or more barbed prongs for catching fish, particularly salmon.

тризъбец

spear with barbed prongs for catching fish


biter

From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).

She tried the same cast several times. I signaled her to switch flies. After two such changes we still couldn't move the fish. Some steelhead are biters; some are not.

2007, John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest, page 79:

(fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.


Angel

Angel (genitive)
Angeln (plural)
Angel (nominative singular)
Angeln (definite nominative plural)
Angel (genitive singular)
Angeln (definite genitive plural)
Angel (dative singular)
Angeln (dative definite plural)
Angel (accusative singular)
Angeln (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German angel, from Old High German angul, from Proto-Germanic *angulō, *angô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“something bent, hook”). Compare Dutch angel, hengel, English angle.

der

(fishing) tackle, fishing rod (angler's tool consisting of hook (Haken), line (Schnur), and rod (Rute))