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fishers

[fish-er]

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noun

1.

any animal that catches fish for food.

2.

a fisherman.

3.

a dark-brown or blackish marten, Martes pennanti, of northern North America.

4.

the fur of this animal.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English fisscher fisherman, Old English fiscere. See fish, -er¹

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fisher

O.E. fiscere, agent noun from fish (v.). Began to be used of certain animals, hence perhaps the rise of the formation fisherman (1520s).

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"Sometimes we lodged at an inn in the woods, where trout-fishers from distant cities had arrived before us, and where, to our astonishment, the settlers dropped in at nightfall to have a chat and hear the news, though there was but one road, and no other house was visible,—as if they had come out of the earth. There we sometimes read old newspapers, who never before read new ones, and in the rustle of their leaves heard the dashing of the surf along the Atlantic shore, instead of the sough of the wind among the pines. But then walking had given us an appetite even for the least palatable and nutritious food."

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