Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box in which fish which have been caught are kept alive, designed to be towed in the water behind a boat.
- noun A railroad-car especially constructed and fitted up for the transportation of fish for commercial purposes or in the operations of fish-culture.
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Examples
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Then, with backs bending under the strain, the two men swung on the cord, drawing in the net, laden with glittering restless fish, which were unceremoniously dumped on the boards to be put into the fish-car awaiting them.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905
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"I haven't caught half so many as you have, either of you," said Ford, as he saw with what even-handed justice the fish were divided, in three piles, as they were scooped out of the "fish-car."
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Various 1868
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"We'll turn the clams out of the basket and fill that; but we mustn't put any crabs in the fish-car.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Various 1868
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