Reverse Dictionary: FISHING

ADJECTIVES
1536 ► SAPPY of meat, fish, etc.: juicy → obs.
1724 ► CALLER of fish, vegetables, etc. fresh, in proper season, newly caught or gathered → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1728 ► SICK of fish, etc.: in the spawning stage
1793 ► HAAF pert. to or employed in the haaf or deep-sea fishing
1828 ► ICHTHYOPHAGOUS fish-eating; feeding on fish
1844 ► ICHTHYIC pert. to fish
1851 ► HALIEUTICAL belonging to fishing
1852 ► ICHTHYOPHAGIAN characterized by the eating of fish
1854 ► HALIEUTIC belonging to fishing
1854 ► PANICHTHYOPHAGOUS eating fish of all kinds
1886 ► PICKED of fish: shredded, flaked → Amer. dial.
1898 ► BATED of fish: in good condition, plump → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► WELL-BATED of fish: in good condition, plump → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► ICHTHYOGRAPHIC pert. to ichthyography (see nouns) (Bk.)
1901 ► ICHTHYOLATROUS worshipping fish (Bk.)
1902 ► LABBERED of a fish: mature enough to ripple the stream → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► UNFISKALEE unlike a practical fisherman → Sc. (Bk.)
1913 ► GREEN of fish freshly caught: neither salted nor frozen → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1944 ► ON THE FIN of fish: freshly caught → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1398 ► SHALE the scale of a fish, etc.
1400 ► WAITH the act or practice of hunting or fishing; chiefly, unlawful taking of game; also, the right to hunt game → Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
1420 ► KELK the roe of a fish → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1470 ► WAITHING fishing; a catch of fish → Sc. obs.
1484 ► MAILS the scales of a fish → obs.
1535 ► GAD a rod or wand; a fishing rod; also, a stake or stout stick → Eng. dial.
1548 ► TACKLING fishing tackle → obs.
1565 ► WAND a fishing-rod → chiefly Sc.
1613 ► JACKET the skin of a seal, fish, etc.
1617 ► KEEP a pond or reservoir for fish; a weir or dam for retaining water
1646 ► HALIEUTICS the art or practice of fishing
1646 ► ICHTHYOLOGY the natural history of fishes
1656 ► ICHTHYOPHAGY the practice of eating fish
1676 ► RIVIATION fishing; in old English law, the use of a river for the purposes of fishing → obs.
1704 ► BANKER a vessel or person engaged in fishing for cod off the banks of Newfoundland → Amer. dial.
1736 ► ICHTHYOGRAPHY description of fishes
1779 ► MAROON FROLIC a pleasure party; esp. a hunting or fishing excursion of the nature of a picnic but of longer duration → US obs.
1779 ► MAROON PARTY a pleasure party; esp. a hunting or fishing excursion of the nature of a picnic but of longer duration → US
1791 ► ALBANY BEEF the flesh of the sturgeon → Amer. dial.
19C.. ► ANGLE-ROD a fishing rod → Eng. dial. obs.
19C.. ► ANSWER in fishing: a bite → Ireland
19C.. ► DAB a flat fish of any kind → Brit. colloq.
19C.. ► DAIRS small unmarketable fish → nautical colloq.
19C.. ► ORTS fish innards → colloq.
1809 ► HAAF in Shetland and Orkney: the deep or main sea; now used only in connection with deep-sea fishing; hence, the part of the deep-sea frequented by fishermen; deep-sea fishing ground or station
1817 ► CAFF refuse, rubbish of any kind; refuse or unsaleable fish → Eng. dial.
1822 ► BAGREL a small fish, such as a minnow → Sc.
1833 ► KILL-DEVIL an artificial bait used in angling, ​made to spin in the water like a wounded fish
1838 ► GURRY the slime and blood of fish → Amer. dial.
1841 ► WALTONIZING angling
M19. ► SIAMESE TWINS fish balls → US sl.
1853 ► ICHTHYARCHY the domain of fishes; the fish-world in all its orders
1853 ► ICHTHYOLATRY fish-worship; the worship of a fish-god, as Dagon
1853 ► ICHTHYOPOLISM the sale of fish
1860 ► CAPE COD TURKEY salted cod → US Civil War usage
1871 ► SCALES a fish-market → Eng. dial.
1871 ► TAMLIN-COD a young cod-fish → Eng. dial.
1882 ► KEENFISH the flesh obtained from the head of a fish → Sc. obs.
1884 ► LOSH a name in Canada and Alaska for the burbot
1885 ► TIDDLER any small fish, often specifically the minnow or stickleback → sl.
1889 ► BEAK the long snout of a fish
1890 ► MOSSBACK an old and large fish, as a bass → angling usage
1890 ► SLUMGULLION offal or refuse of fish of any kind; also, the watery refuse mixed with blood and oil which drains from blubber → Amer.
1892 ► FLATTIE a flounder or other flatfish → NZ colloq.
1892 ► HAIL → HALE a haul of fish → Sc.
1892 ► HANDLE fishing tackle or gear → Sc.
1892 ► HANDLIN fishing tackle or gear → Sc.
1892 ► SCAG putrid fish, esp. herrings → Sc.
1898 ► RAG a lean, scraggy animal or fish → Sc.
L19.. ► JACK BARREL a minnow → nautical usage
L19.. ► LABBERING the struggling of a hooked fish → Brit. nautical usage
20C.. ► NIGGER-FISHING fishing from the bank of a river or pond → US colloq., derogatory
20C.. ► PILLIE a pilchard → Aust. colloq.
20C.. ► PUCKER a minnow; a small fish → Irish sl.
1901 ► TAIL in fishing usage: a fish → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1902 ► THE NAMELESS CREEK a lucky place whose whereabouts is for that reason untold→ anglers’ sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► SAUCEPANS the vertebrae of fish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCALPIONS salt dried fish, generally whiting → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCARROW any small fish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HADDIE the haddock → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAGABANES the skeleton of a fish or animal → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 ► LUNKER an animal, esp. a fish, which is an exceptionally large example of its species → Amer. sl.
1918 ► BEAN DAY a day when fishermen catch no fish and must eat beans as a substitute → Amer. dial.
1920 ► LILLIAN GISH a fish → Aust. rhyming sl.
1920 ► WHALE AND WHITEWASH fish in white sauce → tramps’ sl.
1925 ► TAIGLE a tangle, a muddle; tangled fishing line → Sc.
1929 ► GAR the slime on fish → Sc.
1940 ► CALL-DOG a fish too small for human consumption → W. Indies sl.
1940 ► NIGGER-FISHING leisurely fishing for catfish or carp → US sl., derogatory
1947 ► QUAWK uncooked frozen meat or fish → Can. sl.
1948 ► ALASKA TURKEY salmon → Amer. dial.
1949 ► WATER HOG the common carp → Amer. dial.
1950 ► FISH BOX a can of salmon, etc.; a can containing fish → Amer. dial.
1961 ► OCEAN RAMBLER  a herring; a sardine → UK sl.
1966 ► MONKEY FISHING fishing by using an electrical current to stun the fish → Amer. dial.
1967 ► JACK-SNAPPER freshwater fish that is not good to sea → Amer. dial.
1969 ► BLACK MARIA a fishing net → Amer. dial.
1985 ► EYEBAIT pieces of fish used as bait → Amer. dial.
1994 ► JERL a quiver or slight disturbance of fish just below the surface of the water → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1251 ► GILLER a person whose job is to gut fish → obs.
1384 ► RIPPIER one who brings fish from the coast to sell inland → hist.
1555 ► ICHTHYOPHAGI fish-eaters
1555 ► ICHTHYOPHAGUS one who eats fish
1600 ► CASHMARIE one who brings fish from the sea-coast to market in the inland country → Sc. obs.
1602 ► BALKER a man on a high point ashore, who signals to fishing-boats the direction taken by the schools of herring or other fish
1607 ► ICHTHYOPHAGAN a fish-eater → obs.
1620 ► BUTT-WOMAN a woman who sells ‘butts’ (any of various flatfishes, as a sole, plaice, flounder, halibut, etc.); a fishwife → obs.
1674 ► HAULER one who hauls; a man employed in hauling something, as coal in a mine; a fisherman who hauls a cast-net to the shore
1677 ► ICHTHYOGRAPHER a writer on fishes
1689 ► HEBBERMAN one who fishes on the Thames → obs.
1704 ► BANKER a person engaged in fishing for cod off the banks of Newfoundland → Amer. dial.
1727 ► ICHTHYOLOGIST one versed in ichthyology; a student of the natural history of fishes
1727 ► ICHTHYOPHAGIST a fish-eater
1782 ► BANK FISHERMAN an angler who fishes from the bank of a river, lake, etc., rather than a boat
1785 ► YAGGER one who buys up fish on the sly in order to corner the market, a forestaller of fish → Sc.
1790 ► CADGER an itinerant dealer in fish → Sc. & Eng. dial.
L18.. ► FAG a young female fish seller → sl.
1809 ► BLACK-FISHER one who catches salmon just after spawning; a night poacher of fish
1812 ► HALVER one who fishes with a halve-net or half-net (a fishing-net set or held so as to intercept the fish as the tide ebbs)
1813 ► HIGH HOOK the person who catches the largest or the greatest quantity of fish → colloq.
1817 ► GILL-NETTER a person who fishes with a gill net (one that hands vertically from floats on the water, having a mesh through which fish of the desired size can swim only partially before becoming caught by the gills when trying to retreat) → orig. US
1823 ► GILLIE a sportsman’s attendant in shooting or fishing, now generally in angling, in the Highlands → Sc.
1832 ► WALTONIAN a disciple of Izaak Walton, author of “The Compleat Angler” (1653); an angler
1835 ► ICHTHYOPHAGITE a fish-eater
1844 ► ICHTHYOTOMIST a dissecter or anatomist of fishes
1845 ► ICHTHYOPHILE a lover of fish or fishes
1852 ► ICHTHYOPHILIST a lover of fish or fishes
1852 ► MISSKATIE a fish-wife who sold dried fish at fairs and markets → Sc.
1853 ► ICHTHYOPOLIST a seller of fish, a fishmonger
1854 ► WATERMAN one who makes a living on the water, esp. by fishing, crabbing, or oystering → Amer. dial.
1856 ► HIGH LINE the person who catches the most fish during a particular period of time; frequently used as a title → Amer. dial.
1856 ► RED-FISHER a salmon-fisher → Eng. dial.
1857 ► HERRINGER one who goes herring fishing
1862 ► GINLER one who ‘ginnles’ for fish (ginnle – to catch fish by the gills in ‘tickling; to grope for fish under banks and stones) → Sc.
1865 ► RODMAN an angler
1867 ► RODSTER an angler
1868 ► HIGH LINER the man who catches the most fish on a trip; hence, the best or highest achiever of a group → Amer. dial.
1872 ► HANDLINER one who uses a hand-line for fishing (hand-line – fishing line worked by hand without a rod)
1875 ► TACHENER a young man employed in a fishing-boat → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1880 ► HEWER a person that makes signals from the cliffs to the fishermen in their boats, to let them know in what direction the pilchards lie → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1881 ► PISCICAPTURIST a catcher of fish → humorous usage
1882 ► BACK-JOUSTER an itinerant fish-dealer who carries the fish in a ‘cowal’ or basket, on the back → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1882 ► WAPPER a fisherman, an angler → Sc.
1883 ► BANK FISHERMAN a fisherman who works in the Grand Banks area off the coast of Newfoundland → hist.
1883 ► DAB-DARTER one who spears flatfish
1885 ► BANKSTER a person who fishes from the bank of a river or stream → obs.
1889 ► GIGMAN one who fishes with a gig
1889 ► ICER in the fisheries: one who ices fresh fish in the hold of a vessel (Bk.)
1892 ► BAWBER one who fishes with a bob-net (now no longer legally used), a salmon poacher → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1892 ► MOBBER a fish porter; one who removes the fish to the wagons or carts → US sl. obs.
1895 ► HADDOCKER a person employed in fishing for haddock → (Bk.)
1899 ► HAAFMAN a deep-sea fisherman → Sc.
L19.. ► ROD an angler
1902 ► HAWSEMAN one of the crew of a fishing-boat → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► IN AND OUTER a fisherman who does not venture out in stormy weather → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► GIGGER a fisherman who uses the gig as a means of capturing fish (Bk.)
1905 ► HALFDEALSMAN a fisherman who shares in the profits → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► HERRING-DRIVER a fisherman engaged in the capture of herring by torch-light (Bk.)
1905 ► YELLOW BEAL a person who has gone out fishing and caught nothing → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1917 ► ROCKHOPPER a fisherman who fishes from the rocks on the sea coast → Aust. colloq.
1928 ► GIGSMAN the man in charge of the gig (a steam winding engine) → Sc.
1933 ► HERRIN JOCK a fisherman; often used derogatorily as a nickname → Sc.
1936 ► WAND-FISHER a rod-fisherman → Sc.
1947 ► MOOCHER a person who fishes by means of mooching (a method of angling from a stationary or slow-moving boat, using light tackle and a s mall fish as bait) → US & Can.
1949 ► MEAT FISHERMAN one who fishes with live bait rather than artificial flies or lures → Amer. dial.
1950 ► HEIDSTER the leading hand in a fishing boat, next in authority to the skipper, the mate → Sc.
1954 ► OUTLAW one who hunts or fishes illegally → Amer. dial.
1958 ► SALTCHUCKER a saltwater angler → Can. colloq.
1975 ► HAYFIELD LOBSTERMAN one who is both farmer and fisherman by season → Amer. dial.
1988 ► HANGASHORE a fisherman who does not go out fishing, and thus is regarded as lazy → Can. sl.
1993 ► MEAT FISHERMAN one who fishes for food rather than purely for sport → Amer. dial.
1997 ► HARDWARE SPECIALIST in fly fishing: a spin caster or bass fisherman who uses plugs and lures made of cork, balsa, or metal (Bk.)
1997 ► MOTORHEAD someone in a big speedboat who races by the fishing boats → fishermen’s usage (Bk.)
2006 ► BASSIN’ GALS in bass fishing: female anglers who participate in professional competition → Amer. sl.  (Bk.)
2009 ► BARNEY a person who is unskilled, incompetent, or new at fishing → sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
..900 ► FANG to catch fish; to take in a snare → obs. exc. arch.
1542 ► GARBAGE → GARBIDGE → GARBISH to disembowel; to remove the offal from; to gut fish → obs.
1555 ► MAKE to prepare fish for the market by curing or packing → obs.
1630 ► RAND to cut fish into long slices → obs.
1661 ► MARBLE to pickle fish → obs.
1674 ► HANG to hook a fish → obs.
1730 ► HARL to troll for fish → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
19C.. ► ANSWER of a fish: to bite → Ireland
1808 ► KELTER to struggle violently, as a fish on a hook → Sc.
1838 ► WADE of fish: to appear on the surface or leap out of the water → Sc.
1847 ► PICK to shred or flake fish → Amer. dial.
M19. ► CUND to say or determine which way a shoal of fish is going → nautical colloq.
1853 ► ICHTHYOPHAGIZE to eat fish
1858 ► EXPISCATE to exhaust of fish
1890 ► PICK UP to shred or flake fish → Amer. dial.
1898 ► CAFFLE to deal in ‘caff’ or rubbish; to deal in unsaleable fish → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► KAP → KAPP to take off the heads and remove the entrails of fish → Sc.
1905 ► HORSE to haul; in fishing: to attempt to haul in a hooked fish through violent effort → US sl.
1905 ► THIN to pick out the bones of a fish → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► THRIMBLE to catch fish by clutching them in the hand → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1950 ► GRABBLE to fish with one’s hands; to fish by hand for → Amer. dial.
1954 ► GRAB to fish with one’s hands; to fish by hand for → Amer. dial.
1965 ► GRAPPLE to fish with one’s hands; to fish by hand for → Amer. dial.
1967 ► OUTLAW to hunt or fish illegally → Amer. dial.
1985 ► SIDE to fillet a fish → Amer. dial.
1988 ► POINT in fishing: to bait a hook → Amer. dial.
1999 ► DROWN SOME WORMS to go fishing → Aust. sl. (Bk.)