fish pound

noun

A net attached to stakes, for catching fish; a weir.

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Meanings

nounfish pound (plural fish pounds)

plural fish pounds

  1. CanadaUSdialectalA net attached to stakes, for catching fish; a weir.

    the River St. Francis and its tributary Rivers and Streams should at all seasons remain open and unencumbered by fish pounds, so that Salmon may be left unmolested at and in ascending to their spawning places

    1841, The Provincial Statutes of Canada
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