shot-faren.
dialect.
A mackerel-fishing expedition (also attributive); the mackerel season.
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shot-farec1736
mackerel fishery1769
mackereling1856
c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Shotver men, the mackarel fishers at Dover.
a1798 T. Pennant Journey London to Isle of Wight (1801) I. 137 The Shotfare season, or time of catching mackrel.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Shot-fare, the mackerel season, which is the first of the two seasons of the home fishery.
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