FISHING-BOAT. A stout fishing-vessel with two lug-sails.
FISHING-FROG. A name of the Lophius piscatorius, angler or devil-fish, eaten in the Mediterranean.
FISHING-GROUND. Any bank or shoal frequented by fish.
FISHING-SMACK. A sloop having in the hold a well wherein to preserve the fish, particularly lobsters, alive.
FISHING-TAUM. A northern designation of an angling line, or angling gear.
FISHING-VESSELS. A general term for those employed in the fisheries, from the catching of sprats to the taking of whales.
FISH-LEEP. An old term for a fish-basket.
FISH-ROOM. A space parted off by bulk-heads in the after-hold, now used for waste stores, but formerly used for stowing salt fish—an article of food long discontinued. In line-of-battle ships, a small store-room near the bread-room, in which spirits or wine, and sometimes coals, were stowed, with the stock-fish.
FISH-SPEAR. An instrument with barbed spikes.
FISH-TACKLE. A tackle employed to hook and draw up the flukes of a ship's anchor towards the top of the bow, after catting, in order to stow it; formerly composed of four parts, viz. the pendant, the block, the hook, and the tackle, for which see [Davit].