brailer

English

Brailer lifting salmon into scow

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

brailer (plural brailers)

1. A device for unloading large quantities of fish, consisting of a net of small-mesh webbing attached to a frame.
   • 1977, Michael K. Orbach, Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego, →ISBN:

     The man who threw the handle into the air then crosses over to the starboard side of the skiff and the three men together put all their weight onto the brailer handle and drive it down into the sack.

   • 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 23:

     Working both booms on the dock and with all four of the deck crew in the hold loading brailers they had the old girl emptied out in less than two hours.

   • 2004, Navigation Improvements, Akutan: Environmental Impact Statement:

     Smaller vessels offloading at floating or shore-based processors that do not have a vacuum/backwash system would typically offload using a brailer attached to a crane.

   • 2013, Tex Geddes, Hebridean Sharker, →ISBN:

     The Margaret Ann's engineer will take his station at his own winch to haul up his brailer.