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  • Fishing
    Bahamians have always found the sea more profitable than the land. Shallow waters suitable for small-scale FISHENING can be easily reached from all
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  • fishin
    See FISHINING
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  • fish gill
    (Inagua); fish row (Andros) n. a style of plaiting narrow strips of light and dark STRAW 1 together, forming a squat V pattern
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  • fish
    [OED, except in the compound shellfish, the word is no longer commonly applied in educated use to invertebrate animals] n.
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  • first-time
    [Atlantic; "abbreviation of such a phrase as in the first times" DJE] adv. long ago. (Black) —adj. ancient: It was the first-time people who
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  • first picker
    /fos píka/ [understood as the first to pick a fight, but this may be a hypercorrection: cf. Krio pik fos to start an
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  • first name
    [see quot.] n. surname: 1966 A person's surname is referred to as his "title" or "first name" because he was born with
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  • first face cousin
    [etym?] n. first cousin (also second-face cousin, etc.). (Exuma)
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  • first
    /fo(y)s/ [Atlantic; cf. Brit. dial. North, West first before such a thing comes to pass: "It won't be long first" EDD; US dial.
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  • fire place
     [by reinterpretation of place] n. a place out of doors where a fire is often built: 1959 While there, Accused
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