fissgig

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A form of fishgig — A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.

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Meanings

nounfissgig (plural fissgigs)

plural fissgigs

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of fishgig (“a type of harpoon”).

    At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; […] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: […]

    1638, Tho[mas] Herbert [Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet], Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. …, rev. and enl. (2nd) edition, London: Printed by R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 24
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Chicago

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