| 单词 | bank fishery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbank fishery bank fishery n. now historical a fishing operation, or the fishing industry as a whole, in the Grand Banks area off the coast of Newfoundland. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > sea-fishing > on bank bank fishing1611 bank fishery1693 banking1794 1693 W. Anderton Remarks upon Present Confederacy 44 The Newfoundland and Bank Fishery suspended, if not lost, to the impoverishing of divers of our Port Towns. 1777 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Mrs. Stopford-Sackville (1910) II. 69 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5038) XXXV. 675 Without a large force is sent out to me the bank fishery is at a stand. 1861 New Amer. Cycl. XII. 302/1 About..80 [vessels are employed] in the coast and bank fisheries. 2009 S. T. Cadigan Newfoundland & Labrador iii. 64 The remaining surplus labour appears to have stimulated an offshore bank fishery. < as lemmas |
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