Talk:fisherman

RFV discussion: June–July 2015

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fisherman

Rfv-sense: A boat used for commercial fishing. Never heard of it. And is it only commercial fishing? DTLHS (talk) 04:22, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Not familiar with it, but it seemed plausible to me. More importantly many 'unabridged dictionaries' have it (See “fisherman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search..), including, from Webster 1913, this: "(Naut.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery." DCDuring TALK 12:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

It's a bit tedious to cite it and, sadly, I couldn't vouch for 'widespread use'. Perhaps others can. @Mr. Granger: seems to be able to meet such attestation challenges with great alacrity. DCDuring TALK 12:45, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

• (maybe) 1901, Lulu Katherine Eubank, Old Glory: A Romance of Baltimore [1]

  I forgot to mention the fact that it was supported by a pentangular float of cork, which became entangled in the fisherman's rudder.

  (I can't actually see enough context to be clear that they're talking about a boat's rudder, not a person's.

• 1880 Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet Major

  It rose from the upper boughs of the tree to about the height of a fisherman's mast, and on the top was a vane in the form of a sailor with his arm stretched out.

"Fisherman's Hull" seems to be a technical term for a type of hull. [2] [3]

--Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 13:02, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

They look good to me. I found two other valid ones, I think, that are now in the entry. If more context is needed, you can include a pageurl= element. DCDuring TALK 14:20, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Here are some quotations—I'm not sure how unambiguous they are.
  • 1948, The Atlantic, Volume 182, page 98:

    Rarely, a lumber schooner or a fisherman might be making heavy weather of it.

  • 1967, Patrick Lort-Phillips, Pommies' Picnic, page 154:

    Surely on the surface of those great rivers there must be a canoe or a fisherman; or on that sunlit sea a sail or a coastal steamer.

  • 2007, Steven Harvey, It Started with a Steamboat, page 117:

    Canandaigua Lake was a beehive of activity with steamers, steam yachts, flatboats, sailboats, and fishermen each living in harmony with one another.

  • 2012, Sam Brakeley, Paddling the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, page 43:

    It was a beautiful day and there were motorboats, sailboats, and fishermen out by the dozen, all moving a lot faster than we were. Some of the boats made sizeable wakes, and they weren't always considerate enough to slow down when passing us, so we were subjected to some serious rolling.

With respect to Catsidhe's first quotation above, I can see a lot of context, including the sentence "Mr. Williams, the Hastings fisherman, did not so regard it...." The word fisherman clearly refers to a person in that sentence, and I think it refers to a person in Catsidhe's quote as well. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:26, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

They all look even better. You seem to be better at selecting additional search terms than I am, indeed better than almost any of us. DCDuring TALK 15:51, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 19:58, 17 July 2015 (UTC)