Plural of fisher; people who catch fish professionally or as a livelihood.
Simple plural of 'fisher' (Old English 'fiscere', from 'fisc' meaning fish and the agent suffix '-ere'). One of the oldest occupational titles in English, appearing in place names and documents since medieval times.
The surname 'Fisher' is one of England's oldest occupational surnames, but it's a palimpsest of status — 'Fisher' often meant someone poor who fished illegally in others' waters, while 'Fisher the Great' meant someone who owned fishing rights, showing how the same word encoded both freedom and imprisonment.
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