fisherman
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃ.ə.mən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: fish‧er‧man
Noun
[edit]fisherman (plural fishermen)
- A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
- Any person who attempts to catch fish.
- The fisherman casts her line.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- 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.
- A person whose profession is catching fish.
- He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.
- 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 38:
- 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.
- 1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 64:
- The fisherman threatened to tell the captain if we did not pay for the boat, and between us we had to dub up twenty-five dollars.
- 1989, “John the Fisherman”, performed by Primus:
- Alienated from the clique society, / A lonely boy finds peace in fishing. / His mother says John this is not the way life's supposed to be. / Don't you see the life that you are missing? / And he says / When I grow up I want to be, / One of the harvesters of the sea. / I think before my days are done, / I want to be a fisherman.
- 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 26 May 2015:
- "The attraction is understandable. For the individual fisherman trying to pay off the boat or put his kid through school, and facing Draconian rules to reduce pressure on over-exploited stocks, this is a wide-open area. It's a place to go and use your wits and knowledge to try to make a living, which is what fishermen have been doing for centuries."
- Any person who attempts to catch fish.
- A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
- 1938, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, Cromwell's Captains[2], page 196:
- 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
- 1987, John Rousmaniere, Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee, Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts[3], page 26:
- 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
Synonyms
[edit]- See fisher
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- fisherwoman (fisher (female), fisherman (generic sense) (female))
- See fisher
Translations
[edit]person catching fish
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vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing
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