Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fished"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fish \Fish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fished}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fishing}.]
1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish,
by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to
draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
Any other fishing question. --Sir W.
Scott.
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