Plural of fishing; multiple instances, locations, or types of fishing activities.
From 'fishing' (gerund of 'fish,' from Old English 'fiscian') + plural suffix '-s', allowing the abstract activity to be counted in multiple instances.
In legal and historical documents, 'fishings' appears as a property right—'salmon fishings' or 'trout fishings' were valuable assets that could be owned or leased separately from land, making this plural form economically significant in Scottish and English medieval law.
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