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Definition of Fishgigs
1. fishgig [n] - See also: fishgig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishgigs
Literary usage of Fishgigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men by Edmond Stephen Meany (1907)
"Their spears, arrows, fishgigs, and other weapons, were shaped exactly like those
of Nootka; but none were pointed with copper, or with muscle shell. ..."
2. Natives of Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1906)
"fishgigs are often used for striking fish in the water ; sometimes the black will
strike at random in a deep hole, and after floods a row of men will wade ..."
3. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1893)
"There are trees which produce two sorts of gum — a yellow kind, which the natives
Gums. make use of for their spears, fishgigs, and canoes ; and a kind ..."
4. A General Gazetteer, Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary: Containing a by Richard Brookes (1821)
"Tinv have no other arms than bows ami arrows; and their instruments for fishing
are a kind of fishgigs. ..."
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