U.S. [a. Du. fuik.] A bag-net used for catching fish, esp. shad.

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1860.  Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, 165. Fyke. (Dutch, fuik, a weel, bow-net.) The large bow-nets in New York harbor, used for catching shad, are called shad-fykes.

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  b.  Comb., as fyke-net; also fyke-fisherman, one who fishes with a fyke (Cent. Dict.).

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1891.  W. K. Brooks, Oyster, 181. The shores of our bays and sounds are now so lined by fyke nets and pounds that the number of shad which reach the spawning-grounds at all is proportionally much less than it was in 1880.

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