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fishings

fishings is the plural of fishing.

Meaning of fishing

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

  1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
    • We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
  2. (informal, uncountable) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
  3. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
    • This is good news for the fishing industry.
  4. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
    • the rent of the fishings1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

Questions about fishings

What is fishings the plural of?
Fishings is the plural of fishing.

Words near fishings in the dictionary

  1. fishing-smack
  2. fishing-smacks
  3. fishing-tube
  4. fishing-tubes
  5. fishingly
  6. fishings
  7. fishish
  8. fishjoint
  9. fishjoints
  10. fishkeeper
  11. fishkeepers

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