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Definition of Fishponds
1. fishpond [n] - See also: fishpond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishponds
Literary usage of Fishponds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: A Picture of by Jocelin de Brakelond, Jocelin, Lionel Cecil Jane, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1907)
"... and received a hundred shillings. Of such an act one may say that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump. CONCERNING THE fishponds OF ..."
2. Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse by Paul Selver (1919)
"fishponds. OUR fishponds are as moulded silver shed With streaks of shadow under
clouded skies, Amid green herbage of the meadow spread Like to the ..."
3. The Law of Waste: A Treatise on the Rights and Liabilities which Arise from by Wyndham Anstis Bewes (1894)
"(j) Any man may erect fishponds, these " being a matter of profit, and increase
of victuals." 2 Inst. 199. The fish pass as parcel of the inheritance, ..."
4. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted edited by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge (1890)
"fishponds CHURCH : MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.—In 1883 accurate copies ... with four
on brasses under windows, are in St. Mary's, fishponds, near Bristol:— 1. ..."
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