Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pot or creel for catching fish.
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Examples
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Traces of natives were observed; and he brought on board with him the remains of a fish-pot, nine feet long, made of strips of Flagellaria indica, but so imperfect and disfigured that we could not readily convince ourselves either of its particular construction or use.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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You'll be telling me next that the fish in the sea are yours, and that I mustn't whiff or lay a fish-pot or trammel. "
The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870
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