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name
An English surname originating as an occupation for a fisherman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
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A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
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A suburb of the City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
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A locality in Mid Murray council area, South Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
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A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada.
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A minor city in Poinsett County, Arkansas.
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A locality in Humboldt County, California.
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A village in Champaign County, Illinois.
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A village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana.
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A town in Polk County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A ghost town in Carroll County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
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An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon.
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An unincorporated community in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
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An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia.
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name
A sea area centered on the Fisher Bank off the west coast of Denmark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.
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noun
large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pekan, fisher cat, black cat, Martes pennanti
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Broader terms: marten, marten cat
noun
someone whose occupation is catching fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fisherman
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Broader terms: skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
Narrower terms: angler, troller, trawler
History
From fisher (“fisherman”). Doublet of Fisker.
From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”).
From French fichet (“polecat pelt”), probably from Dutch visse (“nasty”); modified by folk etymology to resemble Etymology 1.
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