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fishing camp
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a camp used as headquarters for a fishing party.
See: fish camp(def. 1)
Quotations
1934
This island is a fishing camp where the trappers come in summer to set nets and get fish for dog feed during the winter.
2
a commercial fishing establishment operating seasonally in a remote area, often equipped with dressing and packing facilities.
See: fish camp(def. 2)
Quotations
1936
The broken-down debris, as one might call them, of the Pacific Coast mining and fishing camps, such as Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangel and a dozen more, came in over the Skagway trail and Chilcoot Pass.
1958
By the same token, he went on, "the minister of transport could occupy a disused wharf as a fishing camp."
3
an establishment providing accommodation and, usually, boats for sport fishermen.
See: fishing lodge
Quotations
1955
Kitchen girl twenty or over, for work from May 1st to October 1st at fishing camp on Lake of the Woods at Sioux Narrows, Ontario.
1965
. . . one farmer has turned a bad farm into a good little fishing camp. . . .