nursepond

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noun

A pond where fish are fed.

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Meanings

nounnursepond (plural nurseponds)

plural nurseponds

  1. rareA pond where fish are fed.

    And I note , that when you store your pond , you are to put into it two or three melters for one spawner , if you put them into a breeding pond ; but if into a nurse-pond or feeding-pond , in which they will not breed , then no care is to be taken

    1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN

Origin

From nurse + pond.

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Chicago

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