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Meanings of fisher in English
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
Related terms
f. fisherwoman
Someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
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Examples for "pekan"
Examples for "pekan"
1
When my father was a papoose he shot an arrow at a pekan.
2
It is the otchoek of the Crees, and the pekan of the Canadians.
3
After feinting till the Kahk would not strike, the pekan began a new manceuvre.
4
He made my father eat the pekan's heart, so his heart might be like it.
5
It is known as the wood-shock or pekan, and is also called the black cat, and fisher.
1
That night, it was the fisher cats.
2
I worked my way up from the alpacas to the fisher cats to the red fox and finally to the wolves.
3
And it was hot-sohot that you could hear the fisher cats singing to each other, and the heads of dandelions bursting into seed.
1
The year and a quarter and the black cat were proofs positive.
2
Following its direction I saw the black cat crouching out of sight.
3
A big black cat crept across the lawn, shaking its wet paws.
4
A wild-looking little black cat jumped on his knee as he spoke.
5
Do you think that the black cat can have been my great-great-great-grandmother?
Usage of fisher in English
1
The fisher reeled in the line and watched for the next break.
2
One day the fisher-boys ran out on to the breakwater in playtime.
3
The fisher-boy had assumed an abrupt and vast importance in her life.
4
The phenomenon was worth investigation, even if the simple fisher-folk had exaggerated.
5
One day Miki found a huge fisher-cat in one of the traps.
6
A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.
7
As a hunter Sweyn was without rival; as a fisher without rival.
8
Sailors and fisher-folk travelled the red, winding harbor roads, light-hearted and content.
9
I disturbed a solitary king-fisher as I went out to the wharf.
10
At length they reached the spot, whence Vaughan could see the fisher.
11
The Bengal tiger acts as a fisher to both animals and men.
12
On this foot the fisher-trap had secured a hold that was unbreakable.
13
For you are a maiden of good birth and no fisher lass.
14
Philip Hardin, fisher of men, is keeping open house near the plaza.
15
And he was as skillful a fisher as he was a swimmer.
16
I am not blind- Icansee further than those dull fisher folks.
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Translations for fisher
Portuguese
Fisher through the time
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United Kingdom
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