Meanings
plural fishets
- archaicrareA young or small fish.
[…] fishets that come through the pump, every morning, thick as motelings […]
1874, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities: In Prose and Verse, page 1071 more example
When they remembered how they came to be partakers of the banquet last year, they must have felt very unsafe until the little crisp fishets were crunched between their teeth.
1867 August 24, “Town Talk”, in Fun, volume the fifth (new series), London: […] J. Alder, →OCLC, page 248, column 1
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