Definitions
large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Word origin
From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”).
Used in a sentence
“The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.”
“In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Small carnivorous mammal”6 letters
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