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Definition of Shrimping
1. shrimp [v] - See also: shrimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrimping
Literary usage of Shrimping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting and Fishing Trips in England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and by Lewis Clements (1878)
"I must, however, premise that my ideas of shrimping as a pleasurable ... Besides,
shrimping it on foot, though amusing enough for half an hour or so, would, ..."
2. Shooting and Fishing Trips in England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and by Lewis Clements (1876)
"I must, however, premise that my ideas of shrimping, as a pleasurable pastime,
... Besides, " shrimping it" on foot, though amusing enough for half ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"shrimping. shrimping. This kind of fishing is carried on either by hand-nets or
some form of trawl. The hand or " shove-net" variey a little in shape on ..."
4. Deep-sea Fishing and Fishing Boats: An Account of the Practical Working of by Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth (1874)
"... shrimping — Whiting fishing — Faversham to Colchester — Fisheries from the
Thames — Trawlers and cod-smacks — Water carriage and land carriage of fish ..."
5. A Treatise on Rights of Water: Including Public and Private Rights to the by John Budd Phear (1859)
"It can scarcely be questioned that the public right of fishing includes shrimping
and gathering all shell or other fish, whose natural habitat is between ..."
6. The Romance of the World's Fisheries: Interesting Descriptions of the Many by Sidney Harry Wright (1908)
"Ask the Dutchmen or the Kent and Essex fishermen what they understand by shrimping.
Push-netting, they will tell you, is children's amusement; ..."
7. Sea Fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"CHAPTER X LOW-WATER SHELL FISH AND CONGER HUNTING, PRAWNING, AND shrimping WE
may leave for a while fish possessing backbones, ribs, and other parts of ..."
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