fissgig

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Noun

fissgig (plural fissgigs)

  1. Obsolete form of fizgig (a type of harpoon).
    • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert [Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet], Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. , rev. and enl. (2nd) edition, London: Printed by R Bip for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 24:
      At day break we were cloſe by the Peninſule Mozambique (part of Quiloa) inhabited by Negroes; abundant in Gold, Silver, and Ambergreece; [] [A]n Armado of Dolphins aſſaulted us; and ſuch we ſaulted as we could intice to taſte our hooks or fiſſgiggs: []

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