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fascine
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n.
a kind of fish trap used on the Lower St. Lawrence.
Quotations
1959
At low tide they construct on the wet surface the framework of their complicated "fascines". The fascine is a large circular trap, resembling a palisade enclosure, into which the fish find their way by a narrow passage and remain imprisoned.