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PISCARY
fishery, piscary
(noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
piscary (countable and uncountable, plural piscaries)
fishery
(legal) The right or privilege of fishing in somebody else's waters.
It seemed to have been generally understood that the lord could not approve, where the commoners had a right of turbary, piscary, of digging sand, or of taking any species of estovers upon the common.
Source: Wiktionary
Pis"ca*ry, n. Etym: [L. piscarius relating to fishes or to fishing, fr. piscis a fish.] (Law)
Definition: The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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