| 释义 |
ˈfish-gig
[var. of fizgig, the first element being modified after fish, from its use in catching fish.]
(See quot. 1788.) = fizgig 4.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts vi. (1704) 532/2 These Fishes are taken with..Fishgigs. 1788A. Falconbridge Afr. Slave Tr. 41 The fish-gig..an instrument used for striking fish..consists of several strong barbed points fixed on a pole, about six feet long, loaded at the end with lead. 1802Barrington Hist. N. South Wales i. 16 The men fish with a fish-gig. 1866Atlantic Monthly Mar. 278/2 They were prevented from ascending by what appears to have been an ordinary fish gig. |