Downrigger vs Fishing - What's the difference?
downrigger | fishing |
(fishing) A large reel of heavily weighted steel wire fishing line used to fish with trolled bait at great depths. Of, about, or pertaining to the act of .
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
(label) The act of catching fish.
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
(senseid)(uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
(label) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
*Spenser
*:the rent of the fishings
As nouns the difference between downrigger and fishing
is that downrigger is (fishing) a large reel of heavily weighted steel wire fishing line used to fish with trolled bait at great depths while fishing is (label) the act of catching fish.As an adjective fishing is
of, about, or pertaining to the act of.As a verb fishing is
.downrigger
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(en noun)fishing
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(-)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Synonyms
* piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorianNoun
- a good day's fishing
- the fishing industry