Definition of Fishkill

1. the sudden destruction of large numbers of fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishkill

fishing rig
fishing rod
fishing rods
fishing season
fishing smack
fishing space
fishing spaces
fishing tackle
fishing vessel
fishing worm
fishings
fishish
fishkeeper
fishkeepers
fishkeeping
fishkill (current term)
fishkills
fishless
fishlessness
fishlife
fishlike
fishline
fishlines
fishling
fishlings
fishlore
fishly
fishmeal
fishmeals
fishmonger

Literary usage of Fishkill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from by Stephen Jenkins (1911)
"ERECTED BY SOLDIERS DURING THE REVOLUTION AND STILL IN USE that, in consequence, there are probably more Revolutionary dead buried at fishkill than in any ..."

2. Historical Collections of the State of New York: Containing a General by John Warner Barber, Henry Howe (1842)
"fishkill Landing, Hopewell, New Hackensack, Carthage, Upper Landing, Johnsonville, ... fishkill village, on the creek, 5 miles from the Hudson river, ..."

3. Gazetteer of the State of New York: Embracing a Comprehensive View of the by Frank Place (1860)
"The highest points of the fishkill Mts., in the s., are 1000 to 1200 ft. above tide.6 The principal streams are the fishkill and its tributaries, ..."

4. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, New York (State). Governor, 1801-1804 (George Clinton), Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1904)
"Captain Henri/ Dodge to Governor Clinton—Levies at fishkill. fishkill, Augt. 13th, 1781. Sir, Agreeable to your Excellency's Note Lt. Welch will pro- •ceed ..."

5. Rand, McNally & Co.'s Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River and Catskill by Ernest Ingersoll (1912)
"The visible settlement at the ferry and railway station is fishkill Landing, or, in the more high-sounding modern phrase, fishkill-on-Hudson. ..."

6. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb: An Officer of the by Isaac Q. Leake (1850)
"Washington arrives at fishkill.—At the Garrison. ... At fishkill. Gen. Arnold had found it expedient to refer the case of Moody to the Commander-in-Chief,* ..."

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