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/fˈɪʃər/ Listen

noun

Fisher n.

One who fishes.

(Zool.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela Canadensis); the pekan; the "black cat."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fisher" Quotes from Famous Books

... fears the fox, the skunk, the wolf and the owl. The skunk fears the coyote which joyously kills him and devours all of him save his jaws and his tail. The marten, mink and fisher have mighty good reason to fear the wolverine, who in his turn cheerfully gives the road to the gray wolf. The wolf and the lynx carefully avoid the mountain lion and the black bear, and the black bear is careful not ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... fisher 'board some little bark, When all around is drear and dark, With shortened pipe beguiles the hour, Though bleak the wind and cold the show'r, Nor thinks the morn's approach too slow, Regardless of what tempests blow. Midst hills of sand, midst ditches, ...

— Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry • Various

... I can get a fish, mother?" he asked earnestly. "I should think a Fisher-boy ought to be able to ...

— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 10, March 8, 1914 • Various

... furred animal.) White Fisher was the name of a noted Chippewa Chief who lived on the south shore of Lake Superior many years ago. Schoolcraft married one of ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... Pickett at the Battle of Cardenas. In 1855-56 he was in Nicaragua, with Walker. He commanded a Kentucky regiment of cavalry on the Union side in our War of Sections. After the war he lived the life of a hunter and fisher at his home in Kentucky; a cheery, unambitious, big-brained and big-hearted cherub, whom it would not do to "projeck" with, albeit with entire safety you could pick his pocket; the soul of ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

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