fishpond

[ fish-pond ]

noun

a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.

Origin of fishpond

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at fish, pond

The beauties who hooked theirs out of that fishpond only succeeded in landing them after much practice.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge
I had not sailed a league in that great fishpond, the sea, but I cast up my very gall.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. | Thomas Dekker
A fishpond with grotesque objects, including a live mermaid, (a man in startling costume), is one feature.
Suppers | Paul Pierce
If we reach it unobserved we can creep through the mass of flowers and shrubbery to a large fishpond which lies just beyond it.
The Forest of Swords | Joseph A. Altsheler
Silence had fallen upon the little group, and a bullfrog down in the fishpond was croaking dismally.
The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories | Various

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