fisher
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fish·er
(fĭsh'ər) 
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n.
- One that fishes, as a person or ship engaged in fishing.
- A carnivorous mammal (Martes pennanti) of northern North America, having thick, dark-brown fur. Also called pekan, wejack.
- The fur of this animal.
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Rare species of marten (Martes pennanti, family Mustelidae) found in northern forests of North America. The fisher is related to weasels and is similarly shaped. It has a bushy tail, tapered muzzle and low, rounded ears. Adults are usually 2025 in. (5063 cm) long, excluding the 1317-in. (3343-cm) tail, and weigh 315 lb (1.46.8 kg). Fishers hunt on the ground and in trees, attacking various rodents and other animals; they also eat fruits and sometimes nuts. It has been trapped for its valuable brownish black fur.
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fisher
fisher, name of a large North American marten, Martes pennanti. This carnivorous, largely arboreal mammal is found in hardwood forests of Canada, the extreme N United States, and mountain ranges of the W United States. Fishers have dark brown fur shading to black and frosted with white-tipped hairs. Males are over 3 ft (90 cm) long, including the bushy tail, which may reach 15 in. (38 cm), and weigh 6 to 12 lb (1.8-3.6 kg); females weigh about half as much. Active both by night and by day, on the ground and in trees, the fisher makes its den in a hollow tree or a hole in the ground. It feeds on small mammals, birds, carrion, and fruits. Despite its name, it does not catch fish, although it will eat them. It is one of the few animals that eats porcupines, which it attacks by striking at the unprotected underparts. The fisher is not abundant and is difficult to trap; its beautiful fur brings high prices. Once considered threatened with extinction, fishers are now increasing in numbers. They are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Mustelidae.
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noun, Brit, dated
A one-pound note or other currency note. (1922 — 3).
Motor Cycling The Bench mulcted him of a couple of Fishers and warned him as to his future behaviour (1923).
[From the name of Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (1919 — 39); cf. bradburynoun .]
noun, Brit, dated
A one-pound note or other currency note. (1922 — 3).
Motor Cycling The Bench mulcted him of a couple of Fishers and warned him as to his future behaviour (1923).
[From the name of Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (1919 — 39); cf. bradbury
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Fisher is an archaic term for fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.
Fisher or Fishers may also refer to:
- Fisher (animal) (Martes pennanti), a North American mustelid
- Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
- Fisher (yachts), famous British motorsailers
- Fisher (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
- The Fisher:
- A brand of high fidelity audio equipment marketed by Avery Fisher
- Sergey Golovkin (1959-1996), a Russian serial killer known as "The Fisher"
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Places
- Australia
- Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
- Fisher Island (Queensland)
- Fisher Island (Tasmania)
- Fisher Island Reef, Tasmania
- Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
- Electoral district of Fisher, a state electoral district in South Australia
- United Kingdom
- Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast
- United States
- Fisher, Arkansas
- Fisher, California (disambiguation), multiple locations
- Fisher, Humboldt County, California
- Fisher, Shasta County, California
- Fisher, Illinois
- Fisher, Louisiana
- Fisher, Minnesota
- Fisher, Pennsylvania
- Fisher Island, Florida
- Fishers, Indiana
- Fishers, New York
- Fishers Island, New York
People
See Fisher (surname)
Other
- the Fisher meteorite of 1894, which landed in Minnesota, United States (see meteorite falls)
- Max M. Fisher College of Business (also known as 'Fisher College'), a unit of The Ohio State University
- Fisher Athletic F.C., defunct football club in England
- Fisher Electronics, a Sanyo subsidiary producing low-cost hi-fi equipment
- Fisher F.C., football club based in England
- Fisher Site, archaeological site in the USA
- Fisher Farm Site, archaeological site in the USA
- Fisher's exact test, a statistical significance test
- Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test
- Sam Fisher (disambiguation), multiple people
- Elena Fisher, character from the Uncharted video game series
- Fisher equation, an equation in financial mathematics and economics
- Fisher transformation, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses
- Fisher Space Pen Co. (see Space Pen and Paul C. Fisher)
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Fisher
Dansk (Danish)
n. - fiskemår, fisker, fiskerbåd
Nederlands (Dutch)
(bont van) vismarter, visser
Français (French)
n. - pêcheur
Deutsch (German)
n. - Fischer, (zo.) Zobel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ψαράς, (καθομ.) αλιευτικό σκάφος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pescador (m) (sentido bíblico)
Español (Spanish)
n. - pescador, barco pesquero, cualquier animal que caza peces para comer
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fiskare (åld.), fiskfångande djur
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
渔夫, 渔船, 食鱼动物
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 漁夫, 漁船, 食魚動物
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - フィッシャー, 捕魚性動物, フィッシャーテン, 漁師
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) صياد السمك , حيوان الدلق : من فصيله إبن عرس,
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - חיה או עוף הטורפים דגים, דייג
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