piscatorial
Adjective
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Adjective
piscatorial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
- 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings, ch 41:
- There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.
- 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, [http://books.google.com/books?id=qTDNv_biFioC&pg=PA38&dq=%22a+lucy%22+date:1800-1900+pike&lr= pg. 38]:
- That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
- 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings, ch 41:
- Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
- 2005, "Mercedes goes back to nature for dynamic inspiration" ↗, Times Online, London, 25 Nov (retrieved 2 July 2007):
- The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.
- 2007, "Atlantic salmon: Ruler of the river," The Economist, vol. 385, no. 8560 (22 Dec.), p. 139:
- There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.
- 2005, "Mercedes goes back to nature for dynamic inspiration" ↗, Times Online, London, 25 Nov (retrieved 2 July 2007):
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