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n. 1 People who fish for a living. 2 Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.
Usage examples of "fisherfolk".
They had preyed upon the indigenous fisherfolk, too, before the Aedile had arrived and put a stop to it.
And if he was impressed, he hated to think how all those farmboys and fisherfolk Cymry had talked about must have felt when they first saw it.
People rarely visit that bay except for glassmakers needing sand or fisherfolk like the ones who spotted your briq.
There was the new quay which ran across the mudflats and stands of zebra grass of the old, silted harbor to the retreating edge of the Great River, where the fisherfolk of the floating islands gathered in their little coracles to sell strings of oysters and mussels, spongy parcels of red river moss, bundles of riverweed stipes, and shrimp and crabs and fresh fish.
Many of the Three-Ships Immigrants had become fisherfolk, and among them, family ships were worked by the whole family.
Ever-curious, cocking its head to look at things, it often befriends fisherfolk, drovers watering their beasts, and bargemasters, and will flit in to visit, day after day, ere swooping away in pursuit of the insects that dance above the Silverflow.
The few people who passed by were fisherfolk, net-menders, dockworkers, and the other types one would expect to see near the docks, and James prayed he might catch sigh of a constable before he went too much farther.
Path the sight of scaly fisherfolk and tarry sailormen gave him an inconsequent delight.
This served to fabricate spyglasses of outstanding quality, such as lured not only fisherfolk but even the all-powerful People of the Sea.
It was said that he owned a homunculus he himself had fathered by despoiling a young girl taken from the fisherfolk.
In the village of the fisherfolk Orolandes had waited for the images to go away.
Once the island had been linked to it by a narrow isthmus passable even at high tide, but the Great Thaw had drowned that along with most of its fertile land, and for scores of years it was visited solely by fisherfolk riding kyqs with their trained gorborangs perched on the saddle-branches like dull red fruit.
His host was raw-apprentice boys, miners, fieldhands, fisherfolk, the sweepings of Lannisport.
Bingtown Traders, New Traders, tattooed slaves and brawny fisherfolk, tradesmen and servants all stood with their friends and kin.
Bad for coral in the long run, though in the short run it was like an all-you-can-eat buffet for the small creatures that fed on algae and plankton, and the larger ones that fed on them, and on up the food chain to the fisherfolk who cursed the wonky holes for mucking up their nets, but kept returning.