fishlore

alternative fish-lore · alternative fish lore

1. uncountableThe knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.

   Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler.

   1886, The Academy, volume 29

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   This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...]

   2005, Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

2. uncountableThe knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.

   I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain.

   1894, Bombay Natural History Society, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society: Volume 8