fishgarthn.
/ˈfɪʃɡɑːθ/ A garth or enclosure on a river or the seashore for preserving fishes or taking them easily.
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1454 Let. in Burton & Raine Hemingbrough 393 Oon fysshgarth..is at yis tyme void of take.
1532 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 18 Certaine engines for taking of fish in the said riuer..commonly called fishgarthes.
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. G2v The Earle shall deliver for his ransome The towne of Barwicke to him, with the Fishgarths.
1771 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 240 The several fish garths erected within this Port.
1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 199 There was a perpetual quarrel about a fishgarth in the Esk.
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