Lexicographical Neighbors of Fisks
Literary usage of Fisks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass, Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass.) (1881)
"... be placed near Lieut fisks provided yc Same Request be granted to a fue families
in Elisha Smiths Row. Thomas Stearns ^j Worcester Febr yc 10 : 1749. ..."
2. Concord Town Records, 1732-1820: Printed by Authority of Joint Resolutions by New Hampshire Concord (1894)
"... through Daniel fisks Land and •5 South twenty two degrees thirty minutes West
Ninety ..o Blanchards Land thence south thirty five Degrees v West seventy ..."
3. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"Thus the stem FISKA signifies ' fish,' whence was formed the nominative fiska-s,
afterwards contracted to fisks' This word fisks belongs to what is called ..."
4. The Life of Clinton Bowen Fisk by Alphonso Alva Hopkins (1888)
"There were two strains of the Fisk family in New England three generations back—the
Connecticut fisks and the Massachusetts fisks. Some branches spelled the ..."
5. The Violin and Its Music by George Hart (1881)
"It now remains to notice the music of these merry men, which consisted of Hornpipes,
Jigs, North Country fisks, Rounds, and Morrises. ..."
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