Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

laxfisher

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lax-fish-er
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A salmon fisher.

Example Sentences

"After reading of th[e]ir acts, he also by direction frae the General Assembly, charged the masters and laxfishers of Dee and Don, within this parish, to forbear fishing upon Sunday, viz. frae Saturday at midnight till Sunday at that time, in all time coming; […]"
"At the September Circuit, before Lords Alemore and Minto, Alexander Buck, jun., laxfisher in Banchory, was outlawed for not appearing to answer to a charge of having, in April before, murdered William Duncan, laxfisher, also in Banchory, by pushing him over a bridge near Hilldowntree."
"Robert Nairn, Laxfisher in Aberdeen, who was called upon as being Suspected of being concerned in the late Rebellion and being out of Town for some time, And being Examined therupon, […]"
"Summons at the instance of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, knight baronet, his Majesty's Advocate, for his Majesty's interest, and Sir William Forbes of Monymusk, knight baronet, and George Barker and Robert Gibbon, laxfishers, his servants, against Mr Mathow Lumsden of Rudrestoun, and Thomas Lumsden, his son, and other persons after named to compear before the Council on , to answer to the following complaint."

Etymology

From lax (“salmon”) + fisher.

Inflected Forms

laxfishers (plural) lax-fisher (alternative) lax fisher (alternative)

Questions

What does laxfisher mean?: A salmon fisher.
Where does laxfisher come from?: From lax (“salmon”) + fisher.

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