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(countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.
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Alternative form of bait boat [(fishing) A small, typically radio-controlled, craft that distributes bait to a region thought to contain fish]
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(medicine) A net that is draped around a bed to prevent access by disease-carrying insects.
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A kind of gull, the jaeger.
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(India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
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(chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
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A type of floating mining equipment used in parts of West Africa.
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(nautical, slang) A bucket filled with fishing bait at sea.
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Alternative form of codline [(nautical) a small line made of eighteen threads, once used for cod fishing, and subsequently in place of rope for delicate work onboard ship]
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An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
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(Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
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(nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.
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(fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.
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(whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
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(countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
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A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
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A small, lightweight inflatable fishing craft.
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A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
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Alternative spelling of fly box [A box in which a fly fisherman keeps his flies]
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(nautical) A manual crank used on fishing lines
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(nautical) A net, or later (by extension) a box or trough, for stowing hammocks.
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A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
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A traditional Maltese technique for catching mahi-mahi, using large flat rafts to cast shade that attracts the fish.
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(military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
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A kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in catching swordfish.
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A slackline which runs a considerable distance
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(archaic, UK, dialect) A small fishing-boat.
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Alternative form of marlinspike [A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.]
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(American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
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To fully hedge a position.
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(fishing) To use or equip with excessive tackle.
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(fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
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An underwater tool used in spearfishing, consisting of a pole, a spear tip, and a rubber loop.
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A boat used for prawn fishing.
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(US, nautical) A boat used to harvest quahogs.
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A hook or clamp used to fasten a pipe to a riverbed.
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(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
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(US, dialect) The bowfin.
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(nautical) A net used to allow people to climb off a ship in an emergency.
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(US, slang, historical) A steamer transporting cattle from the ports of Texas.
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A handbarrow for transporting fish.
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(nautical, archaic) A sucking whale less than one year old.
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(nautical) A small Scottish fishing boat that was used in the Moray Firth region
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A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).
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One who fishes by surfcasting.
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A boat used for swordfishing.
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(military, historical) A net hung from a ship by means of horizontal booms, designed to cause an attacker's torpedo to explode some distance away from the hull.
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(nautical) A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.
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A boat used for fishing for whelks.
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(obsolete) A fishing boat used to catch herring.
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