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Definition of Fisked
1. fisk [v] - See also: fisk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fisked
Literary usage of Fisked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1909)
"This court is fisked to review and reverse on its merits the judgment of the
circuit court. After j thn case was presented to this court upon 17L. ..."
2. The French Revolution Tested by Mirabeau's Career: Twelve Lectures on the by Hermann Von Holst (1894)
"Only bourgeois are left, and every one of them acted upon the maxim of Sie'ye's,
who, when fisked what he had done during ..."
3. Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and by Hugh Swinton Legaré (1846)
"When applied to for help by his lord, Shylock himself never fisked more
grudgingly, "is it so nominated in the bond." The usual incidents of tenure were ..."
4. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter (1877)
"of un- ches £ 4d. fisked rice a year from each household. Work done by contract,
ch as excavating for road embankments, tanks, etc., is paid for at ..."
5. Retrospect of Thirty-six Years' Residence in Canada West: Being a Christian by James Carruthers (1861)
"... I fisked the Indians what tin!}' wanted from God. I mentioned several things
which they greatly ..."
6. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop (1892)
"Flisk them flies off." Also to leap nimbly. " He fisked off like a lop." FLITE,
to scold, to make a great noise. ..."
7. Pioneer Priests of North America, 1642-1710 by Thomas Joseph Campbell (1910)
"The governor was fisked to assist, and he consented most willingly, giving up
for the day, his work of laying out the fortifications. ..."
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