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Piscary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The right to fish in waters owned by another.

n. A fishery.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. fishery

n. The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In law, the right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold

Word Usage

"Thousands of acres of rich cotton-lands were exchanged by the Indians for orders on the store, they giving warranty deeds to same, reserving only the rights of piscary and massacre."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

work workplace

Cross Reference

common of piscary

Hyponym

pearl fishery