[f. FISH sb.1] A pool of water to contain fish; a fishpond.
c. 950. Lindisfarne Gospels, John v. 7. In þæt fiscpol [L. in piscinam].
c. 1000. Suppl. Ælfric’s Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 178. Uiuarium, fiscpol; Euripus uel piscina, fiscpol.
c. 1425. Seven Sag. (P.), 882.
| Into hys horchard thay way he nome, | |
| And to a fische-pole he come. |
1529. Supplic. to King, 48. Fyshe pooles well stored with dyuerse kyndes of fyshes.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 77. The Ditch or Fish-poole, which we haue appointed to be in the midst of our Court and Straw roome, may serue for the Duckes and other birds liuing in the water.
1718. Prior, Solomon, II. 637.
| If tir’d this Evening with the hunted Woods, | |
| To the large Fish-pools, or the glassy Floods | |
| Her Mind To morrow points. |
b. (See quot.)
1718. Steele & Gillmore (title), An Account of the Fish-Pool: consisting of a Description of the Vessel so call’d, lately invented and built for the Importation of Fish alive.
