fisherman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃɚmən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃəmən/
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: fish‧er‧man
Noun[edit]
fisherman (plural fishermen, feminine fisherwoman)
- A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
- Any person who attempts to catch fish.
- The fisherman cast his 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 [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], 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.
- Any person who attempts to catch fish.
- A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
- 1938, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, Cromwell's Captains[1], 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[2], 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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