OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 41384

fishpond

Meanings (ES + gloss)
piscina
A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.
Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainw…
Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.
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