单词 | fishing box |
释义 | fishing boxn. 1. Chiefly British. A relatively small country house by a river, stream, etc., used as a residence while fishing in the summer. Cf. box n.2 29. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1787 World & Fashionable Advertiser 21 July 3/1 Claremont, on its last sale, produced to Mr. Dawes, just profit enough to pay for all his expences at his little fishing box at Hampton. a1813 E. Pugh Cambria Depicta (1816) vii. 281 Glan-y-Llyn, a fishing-box belonging to Sir Watkin William Wynn, Bart. Its situation is very agreeable,..near the lake... The house has two very good parlours, and several smaller apartments on the ground-floor. 1952 F. L. Allen Big Change ii. 32 He had..a thousand-acre place in the Adirondacks;..a ‘fishing box’ at Newport; special suites at the Hotel Bristol in Paris, [etc.]. 2. Any of various types of box for storing fishing tackle, bait, or sometimes the fish caught.Now the usual sense. ΚΠ 1837 Shipping Gaz. 7 Aug. The Chance, of Dover, saw a part of the stern of a vessel..and a fishing box belonging to the well of a fishing vessel, floating upon the Kent. 1851 H. G. Hutchinson Fly-fishing in Salt & Fresh Water 39 When quite dry, you can wind it off and put it in your fishing-box until you want it. 1967 Motor Boating Feb. 102/1 (advt.) 100% watertight with removable seat, this complete fishing station gives more than ample storage... Ice chest..is standard... Scottie-Crafts new fishing boxes come in 3 sizes. 2011 Narooma (New S. Wales) News (Nexis) 23 Mar. My only problem is the fishing box is now too small for all the new found ways to..catch a fish. I am now onto gang hooks, lure, trace [etc.]. 3. A kind of fish trap, esp. one fitted to a weir. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] fish-trap1837 fishing box1861 fishing-hutch1868 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket bow-neta1000 leapc1000 weel1256 willow1385 pichea1398 cruive14.. creel1457 coop1469 butt1533 hive1533 wilger1542 fish-pota1555 pota1555 loup1581 leap weel1601 willy1602 putt1610 leap-head1611 weir1611 putcher1781 fish-coop1803 fishing box1861 crib1873 1861 Rep. Commissioners Fisheries Irel. 1860 App. No. 1. 7/2 in Parl. Papers XXIII. 27 The bed of one side of the river had been deepened, the approaches to the fishing boxes altered, and the channel of the river interfered with. 1870 Law Rep.: Common Pleas Div. 5 659 A fishing-box..so arranged that a fish going into it cannot get out. 1988 J. Clements Salmon at Antipodes iii. 28/2 Weirs [sc. at the time of the Magna Carta]..were usually constructed of stone, with a gap for the fishing box, and designed to trap migratory salmon and trout, which they did with devastating effects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1787 |
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