Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pronged instrument for spearing fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used for striking fish; a grain. It usually consists of a staff with barbed prongs, and a line fastened above the prongs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A spear with barbed prongs used for harpooning fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
spear with abarb on the end of it, used for catchingfish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration (influenced by fish) of obsolete fisgig, from Spanish fisga, ultimately from Latin fīxus, fixed; see fix.]
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From the words fish + gig.
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