fishlore — Dizionario inglese

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1. The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.

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   Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler.

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   This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...]

2. The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.

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   I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain.