A hoop or bow net.
1679. The name Fuyck or hoop-net, as applied to Albany, occurs in a voyage to New Netherland.—‘Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society’ (1867), i. 319.
1832. During the preceding period [bef. 1664] it [Albany] bore also the popular nickname of Fuyck, which means hoop-net, in reference to their use of it in fishing.—Watson’s ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 17. (Italics in the original.)
1860. The large bow-nets in New York harbour, used for catching shad, are called shad-fykes (Bartlett).
