fish pound

English

Noun

fish pound (plural fish pounds)

1. (US, Canada, dialect) A net attached to stakes, for catching fish; a weir.
   • 1841, The Provincial Statutes of Canada:

     the River St. Francis and its tributary Rivers and Streams should at all seasons remain open and unencumbered by fish pounds, so that Salmon may be left unmolested at and in ascending to their spawning places