- fish basket
- noun
: a fishing device made of wooden slats usually set in a running stream to trap fish moving downstream
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fish basket
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fish basket — 1) a device to catch fish moving in a stream; made of wickerwork or wooden slats and usually trapping downstream migrants 2) keepnet (a net lacking knots and supported with plastic or metal hoops, designed to hold fish caught by angling, usually… … Dictionary of ichthyology
fish-basket — 1) a device to catch fish moving in a stream; made of wickerwork or wooden slats and usually trapping downstream migrants 2) keepnet (a net lacking knots and supported with plastic or metal hoops, designed to hold fish caught by angling, usually… … Dictionary of ichthyology
fish-leep — a fish basket … Dictionary of ichthyology
Basket fish — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Basket — Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow. Dyer.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Basket hilt — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Basket work — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Basket worm — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Basket-hilted — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Fish — Fish, n.; pl. {Fishes} (f[i^]sh [e^]z), or collectively, {Fish}. [OE. fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch, OS. & OHG. fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk, Goth. fisks, L. piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. {Piscatorial}. In some cases, such… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
