Fishing vs Waterman - What's the difference?
fishing | waterman |
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
(obsolete) A seaman, a sailor.
A man who lives or works on the water; a boatman.
Someone who distributes or supplies water for a living; a water-carrier.
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 105:
*:An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard.
(dated) Specifically, an attendant on cab stands who supplies water to the horses.
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(surfing) A man skilled in multiple aquatic sports disciplines, such as surfing, bodysurfing, undersea diving, canoe paddling, fishing, etc.
As nouns the difference between fishing and waterman
is that fishing is the act of catching fish while waterman is a seaman, a sailor.As an adjective fishing
is of, about, or pertaining to the act of fishing.As a verb fishing
is present participle of lang=en.fishing
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Adjective
(-)“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
