fish garth (fish garth)

A garth or weir on a river, or on the sea-shore, for the taking and retaining of fish. Also fish - weir. [Eng.] fishgig (fish'gig), n. [Also fizgig, by confusion with fizgig1; The next day, seeking to kill them with fisgigs , they strucke so many the water in many places was red with Capt . John Smith , Works, II. 121. IMG:content-1379.jpg:[blocks in formation]