. A species of _Remora_, said to be trained by the Chinese to
catch turtle. When a turtle is perceived basking on the surface of the
sea, the men, avoiding all noise, slip one of their remoras overboard,
tied to a long and fine cord. As soon as the fish perceives the floating
reptile he swims towards it, and fixes himself on it so firmly that the
fishermen easily pull in both together.

FISHERMAN'S BEND. A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots.
Its main use is for bending studding-halliards to the yard, by taking
two turns round the yard, passing the end between them and the yard, and
half hitching it round the standing part. (_See_ STUDDING-SAIL BEND.)

FISHERMAN'S WALK. An extremely confined space; "three steps and
overboard," is often said of what river yachtsmen term their
quarter-decks.

FISH-FAG. A woman who fags under heavy fish-baskets, but is applied also
in opprobrium to slatterns.

FISH-FLAKE. A stage covered with light spars for the purpose of drying
fish in Newfoundland.

FISH-FRONT. The strengthening slab on a made mast.

FISH-GARTH. The water shut in by a dam or weir by the side of a river
for securing fish.

FISH-GIG. A staff with three, four, or more barbed prongs of steel at
one end, and a line fastened to the other; used for striking fish at
sea. Now more generally called _grains_.

FISH-HACK. A name of the _Gobius niger_.

FISHICK. An Orkney name for the brown whistle-fish, _Gadus mustela_.

FISHING. In taking celestial observations, means the sweeping to find a
star or other object when near its approximate place.

FISHING-BOAT. A stout fishing-vessel with two lug-sails.

FISHING-FROG. A name of the _Lophius piscatorius_, angler or devil-fish,
eaten in the Mediterranean.

FISHING-GROUND. Any bank or shoal frequented by fish.

FISHING-SMACK. A sloop having in the hold a well wherein to preserve the
fish, particularly lobsters, alive.

FISHING-TAUM. A northern designation of an angling line, or angling
gear.

FISHING-VESSELS. A general term for those employed in the fisheries,
from the catching of sprats to the taking of whales.

FISH-LEEP. An old term for a fish-basket.

FISH-ROOM. A space parted off by bulk-heads in the after-hold, now used
for waste stores, but formerly used for stowing salt fish--an article of
food long discontinued. In line-of-battle ships, a small store-room near
the bread-room, in which spirits or wine, and sometimes coals, were
stowed, with t