Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, bag-shaped fishing net held open by hoops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
fike . - noun A kind of fish-trap, consisting of a bag-net distended by hoops; a bow-net.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also
fyke net .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun fishing A type of
fish-trap consisting of tubularnets that are supported byhoops .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A fyke is a fishnet, with long wings on each side; in shape like a nightcap with ear lappets; in mechanism like a rat-trap.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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Barely 1,000 men here still fish for silver eel, with bag-shaped "fyke" nets or old-fashioned traps, and for glass eel with special dip nets - though glass eel fishing, centred on the rivers Severn, Wye and Parrett in the south-west, can be an exceedingly lucrative business.
The Guardian World News Jon Henley 2010
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He spoke of fyke-nets and drag-nets and warp-lines, and of eel-spearing through the ice.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Wha can do nought but fyke an 'fumble, [fuss]' Twad been nae plea; [grievance]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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I drove the stakes in the mud, spread the fyke in the boat, tied the end of one wing to the stake, and cast the whole into the water.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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Then I jumped out of the boat to save the fyke, and the boat got away.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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Then I had to swim again after the boat and row after the fyke, and finally was glad to get my net on dry land, where I left it for a week in the sun.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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The stupid fish come downstream, and, rubbing their noses against the wings, follow the curve toward the fyke and swim into the trap.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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I got the loose end fastened to the boat, and found it impossible to row back against the tide with the fyke.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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There was a sair fyke in the beginning, but the governor, seeing him resolved, gied him his discharge, and he went and dwallt and merried in North Berwick, and had aye a gude name with honest folk free that day on.
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