fishings
SayFISH-ingz/ˈfɪʃɪŋz/
- 1Plural of fishing. Rare; usually fishing grounds or fishing rights.
The estate's salmon fishings were leased to an angling club every summer.
He inherited valuable fishings on the upper stretch of the river.
Note
A plural that only one meaning of fishing can take. The act of catching fish, and the industry built on it, are uncountable and have no plural. The countable sense does: a fishery, a place where fish are caught. Salmon fishings are therefore places to fish, not fishing trips. The verb form fishing, the gerund of fish, never adds an -s.
fishings is a form of fishing
fishing, noun: The act of catching fish, whether from rivers, lakes, or the sea, for food or sport. Full entry
- Forms
- fishingfishings plural
- Spelling
- fishing → fishings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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