fishpond

[ fish-pond ]

noun

1. a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fishpond¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; fish, pond

Example Sentences

The beauties who hooked theirs out of that fishpond only succeeded in landing them after much practice.

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I had not sailed a league in that great fishpond, the sea, but I cast up my very gall.

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A fishpond with grotesque objects, including a live mermaid, (a man in startling costume), is one feature.

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If we reach it unobserved we can creep through the mass of flowers and shrubbery to a large fishpond which lies just beyond it.

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Silence had fallen upon the little group, and a bullfrog down in the fishpond was croaking dismally.

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