different between fishing vs haaf

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish +? -ing.

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
4. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

5. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   • the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times (volume 2, page 190)

     Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Synonyms

• (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport): sportfishing
• (place): See fishery

Translations

See also

• (adj): See fishing
• (adv): halieutically
• (science): halieutics, piscatology
• (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

• piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +? -ing.

Verb

fishing

1. present participle of fish

Derived terms

English

Alternative forms

• haave

Etymology

From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?f/

Noun

haaf

1. (fishing, Shetland, Scotland) the open sea, especially as a place to fish

2. (fishing, Shetland) the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk
   • 2005, James Coull, 7: The development of fishing communities with special reference to Scotland, Jonathan Potts, Hance D. Smith (editors), Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future, page 145,

     Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.

Derived terms

Scots

Alternative forms

• haaff, haf, haff

Etymology

From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?(?)f/

Noun

haaf (uncountable)

1. (archaic, Orkney, Shetland) the deep sea beyond coastal waters
2. (fishing, Shetland) the deep-sea fishing carried out 30-40 miles offshore in open boats
3. (fishing, Orkney, Shetland) deep-sea fishing, especially for cod, ling, tusk, etc.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “haaf” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[1], 2016.
• “haaf” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.
• Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, ?ISBN