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1. Adirondack boat in Adirondack, n. and adj. View full entry 1869
...a lightweight oared boat similar to a canoe, originally used by local guides to transport tourists on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Adirondack region....
2. assize, n. View full entry 1597
...a royalty of one thousand herrings due three times a year during the season to the kings of Scotland from each boat engaged in the herring fishery....
3. bacon, n. View full entry 1712
...transf. The blubber of a whale. ? Obs....
4. baiting, n. View full entry 1653
...The action of furnishing (a hook, trap, etc.), or of strewing a fishing-ground, with bait....
5. balk | baulk, n.1 View full entry 1847
...The stout rope at the top of fishing nets by which they are fastened one to another in a ‘fleet.’ (In Cornw. balch.)...
6. balk, v.2 View full entry 1603
...To signify to fishing-boats the direction taken by the shoals of herrings or pilchards, as seen from heights overlooking the sea; done at first by bawling or shouting, subsequently by signals. See...
7. ˈbalker, n.2 View full entry 1602
...A man stationed on an eminence by the shore to signal to fishing-boats the direction taken by the shoals of herring or pilchards; a huer, hooer, or conder....
8. † ˈbalking, n.2 View full entry 1603
...The guiding of fishing-boats by shouting or signalling from a height....
9. bank-smack in bank, n.1 View full entry 1883
...a Newfoundland fishing smack....
10. barca-longa, n. View full entry 1681
...‘A large Spanish fishing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts..common in the Mediterranean.’ Falconer Dict. Marine1789....
11. bark | barque, n.2 View full entry 1477
...A small ship; in earlier times, a general term for all sailing vessels of small size, e.g. fishing-smacks, xebecs, pinnaces; in modern use, applied poetically or rhetorically to any sailing...
12. bawley, n. View full entry 1887
...A fishing-smack peculiar to the coasts of Essex and Kent. Also attrib., as bawley-boat....
13. bay whaler in bay, n.2 View full entry 1905
...a boat used in bay whaling....
14. bay whaling in bay, n.2 View full entry 1850
...a method of whaling in the shore waters of Australia and New Zealand using land-based stations; formerly called shore whaling....
15. beam-trawl in beam, n.1 View full entry 1883
...to fish with a trawl-net of which the mouth is kept open by a beam....
16. beating-net in beating, n. View full entry 1883
...a kind of fishing-net....
17. beatster, n.1 View full entry 1575
...A mender or mounter of fishing-nets. (Sense of 1575quot. uncertain.)...
18. Bible-leaf in Bible, n. View full entry 1851
...a thin slice of whale-blubber for heating in a try-pot;U.S. (see quot. 1931)....
19. billet-head in ˈbillet, n.2 View full entry 1840
...a piece of wood at the bow of a whale-boat, round which the harpoon line runs; also ‘a carved prow bending in and out, contrariwise to the fiddle-head (scroll-head)’ Smyth Sailor's...
20. black-sick in black, adj. and n. View full entry 1667
...(in oyster farming) designating female-phase larviparous oysters whose mantle chamber contains almost fully developed larvae having the appearance of a dark mass....
