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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
en netting, trapping, and angling was early understood. The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.... They shall be broken. ... that make sluices and ponds for fish. (Is. XIX. 8, 10.) See also Habakkuk i. 14, 15; Amos IV. 2 (787 B. C.). Oppian wrote a Greek epic on fishes and fishing about A. D. 198. Wynkyn de Worde's Treatyse of Fysshinge appeared in 1496, and Walton's Complete angler in 1653. Fish′ing-line. A flaxen or fine hempen cord for angling. The Grecian fishing-lines were of horsehair, white nearest to the hook. Horsehair, catgut, and silk are now used for snoods. Fishing-line reel. Fish′ing-line reel. A little winch, usually attached to a fishing-rod, and upon which the line is wound. In one case it is furnished with an alarm, so that a sleepy fisher may have notice when a fish runs away with the bait. Fish′ingnet. See net. Fish′ingrod.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
pied by cases for letters and papers, arranged in semicircular form, and by distributing-tables; the remainder is used as a throughmail room, where the bags are placed after distribution. A patent bag-catcher, which snatches the mail-bags from cranes at the different stations as the train passes, is fixed to each door of the car. Post′age-stamp. A stamp attached to a letter or package, to pay for its carriage by mail. Postage-stamps were in use in Paris in the reign of Louis XIV., 1653. A private post, under royal authority, was established by M. Velayer, August 16, 1653, a stamp being attached to pay for the transportation of the answer. The stamps were on sale at different public places, and had a portrait of the king. They were sold at one sous each. Boxes were placed at streetcorners for the reception of the letters, which were collected three times a day. Postage-stamps for prepayment of letters were adopted in England about 1840, and about eight years afterward