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fishermen
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Word definitions for fishermen in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fisherman \Fish"er*man\, n.; pl. Fishermen . One whose occupation is to catch fish. (Naut.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of fisherman English)
Usage examples of fishermen.
fishermen who don't have bank accounts cash paychecks at the Crow's Nest (it helps if they owe the bar money), and fishermen who don't have mailing addresses can have things sent right to the bar.
Giant bluefin tuna are still hunted this way, but fishermen use spotter planes to find their prey and electric harpoons to kill them.
Ethel's grandfather was a fisherman and both her daughters dated fishermen and all four of the sons fished at one point or another.
Some boats go as far away as the coast of Chile to catch their fish, and fishermen think nothing of grabbing a plane to Miami or San Juan to secure a site on a boat.
And that a bartender put the money away for safekeeping says a lot about how fishermen choose their bars.
The shoulder muscles that resulted from a lifetime of such work made fishermen easily recognizable on the street.
After two centuries of watching these elusive fish swim past in schools so dense they discolored the sea, New England fishermen suddenly had a way to catch them.
In the old days, Grand Banks fishermen used to run to Newfoundland to salt-dry their catch before heading home, but the coming of the railroads in the 1840s changed all that.
Within a few years there were so many Portuguese boats on the Banks that their king felt compelled to impose an import tax in order to protect the fishermen at home.
Farmers are easy to control because they're tied to their land, but fishermen are not so easy to control.
Young women avoided certain streets, town constables were on the lookout for errant fishermen, and orchard owners rigged guns up to trip-wires to protect their apple trees.
Some Gloucester fishermen, apparently, didn't even respect the Sabbath: "Cape Cod captains went wild-eyed in an agony of inner conflict," recorded a Cape Cod historian named Josef Berger, "as they read the Scriptures to their crews while some godless Gloucester craft lay in plain sight.
Swordfish have attacked boats, pulled fishermen to their deaths, slashed fishermen on deck.
Sport fishermen need live bait on heavy steel hooks that are secured to 500-pound test steel wire or chain to catch swordfish.
Commercial fishermen, who are in the business of avoiding the thrill of fishing, use different methods entirely.