fishgarth
(ˈfɪʃgɑːθ)
[f. as prec. + garth.]
A garth or inclosure on a river or the seashore for preserving fishes or taking them easily.
| 1454 Let. in Burton & Raine Hemingbrough 393 Oon fysshgarth..is at yis tyme void of take. 1532 Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 18 Certaine engines for taking of fish in the said riuer..commonly called fishgarthes. 1634 Ford P. Warbeck iv. i, The earl shall deliver from his ransom The town of Berwick to him, with the fishgarths. 1771 in Picton L'pool. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 240 The several fish garths erected within this Port. 1894 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Westmorland 199 There was a perpetual quarrel about a fishgarth in the Esk. |