Catch, noun
Oxford English Dictionary 1989
2a. The catching of fish
b. The number of fish caught at one time, or during one season. 1465
d. A stretch of water in which fish may be caught.
6. A trick. Obs. 1430
7a. A catching or entangling question. Obs. 1674
c. Catch 22 … a set of circumstances in which one requirement etc., is dependent upon another, which is, in turn dependent upon the first. Joseph Heller, Catch-22. A novel 1961.
10. concr. That by which anything is caught and held; any contrivance for checking the motion of a piece of mechanism, a door, etc. 1420
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary 1975
3. Something that checks or holds immoveable.
7. A concealed difficulty
Book contents
- The Catch
- Studies in Environment and History
- The Catch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography
- Introduction
- 1 “Natural” Aquatic Ecosystems around Late Holocene Europe
- 2 Protein, Penance, and Prestige
- 3 Take and Eat
- 4 Master Artisans and Local Markets
- 5 Aquatic Systems under Stress, c. 1000–1350
- 6 Cultural Responses to Scarcities of Fish
- 7 Going beyond Natural Local Ecosystems, I
- 8 Going beyond Natural Local Ecosystems, II
- 9 Last Casts
- Appendix A Glossary of European Fishes Named in This Book
- References
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2023
Book contents
- The Catch
- Studies in Environment and History
- The Catch
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Additional material
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography
- Introduction
- 1 “Natural” Aquatic Ecosystems around Late Holocene Europe
- 2 Protein, Penance, and Prestige
- 3 Take and Eat
- 4 Master Artisans and Local Markets
- 5 Aquatic Systems under Stress, c. 1000–1350
- 6 Cultural Responses to Scarcities of Fish
- 7 Going beyond Natural Local Ecosystems, I
- 8 Going beyond Natural Local Ecosystems, II
- 9 Last Casts
- Appendix A Glossary of European Fishes Named in This Book
- References
- Index
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- The CatchAn Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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