10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISHGIG»
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He laid out on the ground all his tools and weapons: the barbed spear, the
smooth-tipped spear, the fourpronged fishgig, the sword-like length of wood with
the oyster shell gummed into the end. Item by item, he taught Rooke the names.
Dooul ...
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Images of the natives in the art of New Spain: 16th to 18th ...
The idea of including the fishgig in portraits could come from knowledge of some
European allegorical models, akin to the portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune. On
the other hand, Moctezuma's thick beard in the Tovar Manuscript, and the way ...
Elisa Vargas Lugo de Bosch, Cándida Fernández de Calderón, Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2005
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Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library
... strongest light was apparently made by fish. Great lumps of 'fire' could be
observed quite near the ship. As soon as one moved one of them by means of
the fishgig,* the lumps disintegrated into innumerable rays — everything
disintegrated.
The men tish with a spear, or fishgig, in the use of which, it is apparent, they are
very dexterous. The flsh-gig is in length something more than the warlance, but
they can, according to the depth of water, increase its length, by a variety ofjoints
...
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The Asiatic Annual Register: Or a View of the History of ...
... talent; their dexterity is chiefiy confined to their i_ngc'uul_ty in fishing, for which
purpose they usually carry a slender stick, made of the lightest wood, and not
unlike a fishgig, with which they strike the fish, as they glide along the stream .
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A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland
They found water; and reported that the trees were large, tall and very thick; and
that they saw no sign of people. At night the yawl came aboard and brought a
wooden fishgig, very ingeniously made; the matter of it was a small cane; they
found ...
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A Dictionary of English and Bengalee: Tr. from Todd's Ed. of ...
ম৪-স্যয়ুক্ত, মৎস্যাম্বিত, মৎত্তস্যতে পরিপূর্ণ মৎস্য To Fit, v- ঞ- উপয়ুক্ত-হ, যোগ্য-হ,
উচিত-হ, টিক-হ, প্নবৃচত-হ, মর I যঘার্থ-হ | Fishgig, Fizgi g শব্দ দের | ' Fitch, n. ৪. ফলবিশেষ |
To Fishify, v- ঞ- অবর ডাষাবিশেষ, মংস্য-কু, মৎসাজম্মা, মং Fitcha1;'<r1 Fitchew, ঞ.
Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Ramcomul Sen, 1834
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Random House Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
-ig, big, brig, cig, dig, fig, gig, grig, jig, pig, prig, rig, sprig, swig, trig, twig, Whig,
wig, zig; bigwig, brillig, bush pig, buzzwig, cat rig, earwig, fishgig, fright wig,
pfennig, renege, shindig, square rig, zaftig, Zelig; caprifig, guinea pig, infra dig,
jury-rig, ...
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis
FIX'URE,s. Stable state: Frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and
deracinate The unity and married calm of states Wite from their fixt-ire. S/ia/
igszzeare. FIZ'GIG, or FISHGIG, s. A kind of dart or harpoon with which seamen
strike fish ...
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In Search Of Robinson Crusoe
The implement reminded me immediately of the fishgig, and the men re- called
the strikers from the days of Will the Moskito. They passed us and began to climb
aboard one of the rundown fishing boats moored at the end of the pier.
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Ben Franklin's Bermuda Sea Monster
... who intended to strike him with a Fishgig; but approaching him, the human Likeness surpris'd them into Compassion, and they had not the ... «Bernews, Dec 11»
