Definition of Fishing license

1. Noun. A license authorizing the bearer to fish during a specified period of time.

Exact synonyms: Fishing Licence, Fishing Permit
Generic synonyms: Licence, License, Permit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishing License

fishinesses
fishing
fishing boat
fishing boats
fishing cat
fishing cats
fishing eagle
fishing expedition
fishing expeditions
fishing gear
fishing ground
fishing grounds
fishing hook
fishing hooks
fishing licence
fishing license (current term)
fishing line
fishing net
fishing owl
fishing permit
fishing pole
fishing poles
fishing rig
fishing rod
fishing rods
fishing season
fishing smack
fishing space
fishing spaces
fishing tackle

Literary usage of Fishing license

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society by American Fisheries Society (1912)
"How large a fund a fishing license will produce is uncertain for the reason that no state has yet required separate hunting and fishing licenses from both ..."

2. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"A five-day fishing license can be obtained for $6, and a $3 stamp is added to the state license for fishing in Virginia's national parks. ..."

3. Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas by Lorenzo Sabine (1853)
"But the taking of mackerel by any vessel under cod-fishing license, except as bait or food for her crew, is regarded as a violation of the license laws. ..."

4. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1916)
"Nonresident fishing license.—Except as hereinafter provided, no person, except a bona fide resident of this state for at least thirty days immediately prior ..."

5. Adventure Guide to Tampa Bay and Florida's West Coast by Chelle Koster Walton (2003)
"fishing licenseS Non-Florida residents age or older must obtain a saltwater fishing license to cast from shore or any pier or vessel not covered by its own ..."

6. A Source-book of Military Law and War-time Legislation by John Henry Wigmore, United States War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training (1919)
"MOUNT, J. This is an application for a writ of mandate to require the fish commissioner of this State to issue to the relator a purse-seine fishing license ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the District Court of the United by United States District Court (Maine), Ashur Ware, Edward Henry Daveis (1874)
"All the bank and coast fisheries were carried on under a cod-fishing license. But by that time the mackerel fishery had grown. up to an important branch of ..."

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