fisherman

UK /ˈfɪʃ.ə.mən/ US /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/
noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

The fisherman casts her line.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2

A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.

3

A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.

They tortured and put to death English factors in the Spice Islands; they descended upon the fisheries of the North Sea in huge fleets escorted by men-of-war that attacked and sank the fishermen of other nations

Such boats should not have been fast, but the better fishermen — particularly John Alden's designs - […] won a big share of the offshore and coastwise races

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