[f. as prec. + GARTH.] A garth or inclosure on a river or the seashore for preserving fishes or taking them easily.
1454. Let., in Burton & Raine, Hemingbrough, 393. Oon fysshgarth, pertenynge to ye said officer, is at yis tyme void of take.
1532. Act 23 Hen. VIII., c. 18. Certaine engines for taking of fish in the said riuer … commonly called fishgarthes.
1634. Ford, P. Warbeck, IV. i.
| The earl shall deliver from his ransom | |
| The town of Berwick to him, with the fishgarths. |
1771. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 240. To remove the several fish garths erected within this Port to the annoyance of the navigation thereof.
1894. R. S. Ferguson, Hist. Westmorland, 199. There was a perpetual quarrel about a fishgarth in the Esk.
