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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

... there was scant courtesy in his speech, it was by no means the rough talk of the fisher-folk. It fired her curiosity. "And ...

— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell

... limited period, have proved their capability of becoming self-supporting, self-respecting citizens, and ask only for the just enforcement of law and intelligent instruction and supervision. Others, living in more remote regions, primitive, simple hunters and fisher folk, who know only the life of the woods and the waters, are daily being confronted with twentieth-century civilization with all of its complexities. Their country is being overrun by strangers, the game slaughtered ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... For an amateur you did wonderfully well. But amateurs never really succeed. There were a dozen little easy precautions which we neglected to take. What we want is a professional; a man whose business is kidnapping; the sort of man who kidnaps as a matter of course; someone like Smooth Sam Fisher.' ...

— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

... York State Militia, for instance, went in a body to Fisher's Island, off the eastern end of Connecticut, and there engaged in landing parties, camping, and sham battles. On another occasion the battalion embarked on board the battleships "Massachusetts" and "Texas," each militiaman ...

— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday

... sunshine. She was usually free to go out-of-doors in the afternoons, because the boys only worked until noon, and then again in the evening, when it was night school, and Katherine did her best with such of the fisher folk as preferred learning to loafing and gambling in ...

— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

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