Crossword clues for fisk
fisk
- Carlton of baseball
- W.E.B. Du Bois's Nashville alma mater
- W.E.B. Du Bois' Tennessee alma mater
- Red Sox catcher Carlton whose 12th-inning off-the-foul-pole home run won Game 6 of the 1975 World Series
- Historically black university in Tennessee
- Erie R. R. speculator
- Catcher Carlton __, who famously homered to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series
- Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carlton
- 11-time All-Star Carlton
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fisk \Fisk\, v. i. [Cf. Sw. fjeska to bustle about.] To run about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.]
He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.
--Latimer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
2002, an Internet argument tactic involving a reprinting of a text, interlarded with rebuttals and refutations. Named for English journalist Robert Fisk (b.1946), Middle East correspondent for the "Independent," whose writing often criticizes America and Israel and is somewhat noted for looseness with details. Critics responded in this style. Related: Fisked; fisking.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context obsolete English) To run about; to frisk; to whisk. Etymology 2
vb. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
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Location: 36.782253 N, 90.206198 W
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Wikipedia
Fisk may refer to:
Fisk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carlton Fisk, Major League Baseball player
- Charles Brenton Fisk (1925–1983), American organ builder and founder of C.B. Fisk, Inc.
- Eliot Fisk, classical guitarist
- Sir Ernest Fisk Australian radio engineer, founder of Amalgamated Wireless Australasia
- Jack Fisk, art director for films
- James Fisk (financier) (1834–1872), financier and speculator
- Jason Fisk, National Football League player
- Nicholas Fisk, pseudonym of David Higginbottom, science fiction author
- Robert Fisk, British journalist and author
- Sari Fisk, Finnish Olympic bronze medalist of women's ice hockey
- Schuyler Fisk, American actress, daughter of Sissy Spacek
- Stephen Gregory Fisk Mayor-elect of Juneau, Alaska
- Steve Fisk, American audio engineer, record producer and musician
- Wilbur Fisk, Methodist theologian
- Herbert Fisk Johnson III (known as "Fisk" Johnson), CEO and Chairman of S. C. Johnson & Son
Fictional characters:
- Jack Fisk (Battlestar Galactica)
- Richard Fisk, anti-hero from the Marvel Universe
- Wilson Fisk, supervillain from the Marvel Universe
Usage examples of "fisk".
It was Baken, not Vetch and Fisk, who weeded out the unsuitable boys from the ones that would take proper care of their dragonets.
Fisk was a typical academic, bald, jowly, reading glasses dangling from his neck.
FISK, On which was a written not in words, 405 But hieroglyphic mute of birds, Many rare pithy saws concerning The worth of astrologic learning.
Fisk - and the Blowfish and the truck from the hardware store and a Lincoln with two rent-a-dicks all converged on Blue Kills Beach.
The race that possesses such powers, even though undeveloped in the great majority of its members, needs Fisk and Atlanta educated pastors and teachers.
Bob Schwegel, or Luke Daniels, or John Manning, or Doug Fisk, was nowhere near the list of suspects.
Jim Fisk and Boss Tweed and politicians connected to the Tammany Hall machine.
That was why Mars would never be more than a dream for Fisk Centers, no matter how alluring the sales pitch.
Bill said, as Fisk mopped his brow with relief that this definitional hurdle had been negotiated.
The flip side being that if he fisked with them, even once, he'd be visited by unpleasant gentlemen with similar abilities and then there would be no more Brice Cruz.
But if he took the job, and did it well, he would be fisking over Conner.
Furthermore, anyone found fisking on duty will face the full force of a court-martial, up to and including flogging and disrating.
Fisk forced a message down along the resistive nerve tissue of his right arm and the arm convulsed a bit, pulling the wheel around just that necessary fraction.
Duane Fisk, the officer assigned as my trainer and second, warned me about overtraining, but I ignored him and kept pushing up until forty-eight hours before the bout.