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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fisherman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
commercial
▪ According to Best and da Silva, the degree of hostility from commercial fishermen towards the boto is unquestionably growing.
▪ This past week, a commercial salmon fisherman from Atascadero did just that.
▪ The commercial fishermen were in search of Blue Fin Tuna.
local
▪ One local fisherman is drowned when his boat catches fire and burns.
▪ Malachi is one of the local fishermen.
▪ The local fishermen keep their equipment in the arched openings nowadays.
▪ They were local lave-net fisherman, a familiar sight in this part of the county.
▪ The local fishermen blame the invaders.
▪ The local fishermen suffer, and so do the seabirds.
▪ For over two centuries, local fisherman have driven dolphins ashore to be butchered and eaten.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fifty fishermen are killed instantaneously by the blast.
▪ It is also in these channels that the lave fishermen will stand.
▪ Leven Canal is well known for miles around by fishermen.
▪ No sense trying to sell fish to a fisherman, eh?
▪ Often they are fishing illegally inside an area reserved for artisan fishermen, but the boats cover their identity numbers with mud.
▪ On the river is a long dark wooden boat, a cormorant fisherman.
▪ The fisherman made the request of the flounder, and this wish came true too.
▪ There was Edna and Edna's fisherman brother, Bert.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fisherman

Fisherman \Fish"er*man\, n.; pl. Fishermen.

  1. One whose occupation is to catch fish.

  2. (Naut.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fisherman

1520s, from fisher + man (n.).

Wiktionary
fisherman

n. 1 A fisher, a person engaged in fishing: 2 # Any person who attempts to catch fish.

WordNet
fisherman

n. someone whose occupation is catching fish [syn: fisher]

Wikipedia
Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.

Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. The term can also be applied to recreational fishermen and may be used to describe both men and women. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.

Fisherman (comics)

The Fisherman is a name used by a number of different comic book supervillains in the DC Universe.

Fisherman (American horse)

Fisherman (foaled 1951 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

Fisherman (English horse)

Fisherman was a hardy English-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won 70 races including the Ascot Gold Cup on two occasions. Exported into Australia he became a leading sire there.

Fisherman (disambiguation)

A fisherman is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish

Fisherman or variants may refer to:

Usage examples of "fisherman".

They liked visiting the coffee plantations where arabica coffee was grown, or climbing to the higher elevations where robusta coffee, the kind used for instant coffee, was grown, or watching the fishermen haul in their catch from Lake Tanganyika.

He went fishing with the artel fishermen, leaving Sergei and Natasha in the care of the neighbours sometimes for as long as three days.

Several of the veteran fishermen were suddenly eager for his viewpoint on baiting, and on any number of other topics, at the local tavern where everyone hung out.

It was the first white men who ventured through Melanesia after the early explorers, who developed beche de mer English--men such as the beche de mer fishermen, the sandalwood traders, the pearl hunters, and the labour recruiters.

And so while Aunt Rosa slept, Lucia danced at the Quisisana in Capri, rode in a carrozza with a beplumed and iM-iiaiicu iiuisc puiung n, joinea a group of college boys at the Marina Piccola, went on picnics at Bagni di Tiberio, and took the Funicolare up to Anacapri, where she joined group of French students for drinks at the Piazza Umertol In Venice a handsome gondolier took her to a disco, and a fisherman took her fishing at Chioggia.

There were some damn good fishermen here, but Richie had already boated sixty-three fish, while the total howlers caught by the other twenty-three entrants was only sixty.

Van Brugh raised his three-cornered hat in courtly salute, staring hard at Kitty and the fisherman as he passed them.

The tenth village, Bryn Shander, though now a walled, bustling settlement of several thousand people, had been merely an empty hill sporting a solitary cabin where the fishermen would meet once a year, exchanging stories and goods with the traders from Luskan.

From this moment the cries against the fisherman diminished, and as the Bucentaur, though still distant, was now in sight, interest in the issue of the race absorbed all other feelings.

When the three gondolas reached the side of the Bucentaur, the fisherman hung back, as if he distrusted his right to intrude himself into the presence of the senate.

That just about described all the boatmen, caulkers and fishermen of Venice.

But he would know how to organize a corps of fishermen and clammers to make a search, if needed.

Anchorage Bay, it was called, and in the previous century boats had tied up at the little jetty, there had been fishermen living in the row of cottages and cobles drawn up on the beach.

Now, coper skippers have the same hatred for mission ships that they have for revenue cutters, for the former, by selling tobacco at low prices, keep the North Sea fishermen away from the copers, and so have spoiled their traffic in intoxicant drinks.

Very bad news he considered it, for he knew that the North Sea fishermen never came aboard a coper if there was a mission ship with the fleet.