fisherman

noun

1. 1

   A fisher, a person engaged in fishing: Any person who attempts to catch fish.

   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. 2

   A fisher, a person engaged in fishing: A person whose profession is catching fish.

   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.

   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.

   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.

3. 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

Forms

plural

fishermen