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A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
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A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.
Examples of fisherman in a Sentence
The instrument generally employed is a bag-shaped net attached to a semicircular hoop, provided with a long handle and pushed over the surface of the sand by a fisherman wading in the water at ebb-tide.
He speaks Finnish with Finns, Mongolian with Buriats, Ostiak with Ostiaks; he shows remarkable facility in adapting his agricultural practices to new conditions, without, however, abandoning the village community; he becomes hunter, cattle-breeder or fisherman, and carries on these occupations according to local usage; he modifies his dress and adapts his religious beliefs to the locality he inhabits.
You usually lie like a bragging fisherman, so I stopped asking.
Originally a fisherman and diver of Anthedon in Boeotia, having eaten of a certain magical herb sown by Cronus, he leapt into the sea, where he was changed into a god, and endowed with the gift of unerring prophecy.
In 1555 Rawlins White, a fisherman, was burnt at Cardiff for his Protestantism, and in 1679 two Catholic priests were executed for recusancy.
They were finally driven ashore on the island of Seriphus, where they were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys.
Cape Mount (on the northern side of which is a large lagoon - Fisherman Lake) at its highest point is 1050 ft.
To the fisherman in India the mahseer affords the same kind of sport as the salmon in the British Isles, and it rivals that fish as regards size, strength and activity.
A flamingo (Phoeniconaias) visits Fisherman Lake, and there are a good many species of herons.
The most important codfishery in the world is that which has been prosecuted for centuries on the Newfoundland banks, where it is not uncommon for a single fisherman to take over Soo of these fish in ten or eleven hours.
His son was born in a fisherman's cottage in 1745.
In one part of the museum is a reconstructed fisherman 's cottage.
North Beach, located between San Francisco's Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf, is a vibrant neighborhood with an Italian heritage.
Deadliest Catch films commercial fisherman in action on the Bering Sea as they face the highs and lows of the profession.
The "Fisherman's ring" is a red ink stamp representing St Peter on a boat casting out his nets, with the name of the reigning pope.
The fishing industry of the Netherlands may be said to have been in existence already in the 13th century, and in the following century received a considerable impetus from the discovery how to cure herring by William Beukelszoon, a Zeeland fisherman.
It is addressed to Diophantus and conveys a moral, that one should work and not dream, illustrated by the story of an old fisherman who dreams that he has caught a fish of gold and narrates his vision to his mate.
Among his best works are his " outdoor essays," especially Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899).
Among the culprits apprehended by enforcement officers during the blitz were a number of carp fisherman in the Environment Agency's Thames region.
Knots, including bowline, figure of 8, clove hitch, Italian hitch, prussik, double fisherman's.
Fisherman baiting creel Open After the last creel in the ' set ' has been emptied they are then put back into the sea.
Creels stacked on deck of fishing boat Open The fisherman lays his creels stacked on deck of fishing boat Open The fisherman lays his creels in ' sets ' on the seabed.
Our coarse fisherman had yet to catch a coarse fish on the fly.
A local fisherman has also revealed that he had found radioactive debris from Dounreay in his lobster creels on a number of occasions.
Spink is a remarkably strong man, whose tout ensemble is highly characteristic of a North-country fisherman.
Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884, educated at Rugby and became a passionate fisherman from a very young age.
Other rewards for a shrimp fisherman provided by lutz's who pays it.
The tiny harbor is now used by a local crab fisherman.
Barry is married with two grown up children and enjoys watching most sports but is a keen fly fisherman.
The legend says that he was an experienced fly fisherman working as an engineer for NASA.
Over the last twenty years the fishery has been developed as a paradise for the discerning fly fisherman.
It might smell like a fisherman's armpit, but it is very good at improving microbial activity and helps accelerate growth.
My place to buy fish is Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast, where there are ad hoc fisherman's huts along the front.
Three undersized lobsters cost a Pembrokeshire fisherman a £ 250 fine imposed by Haverfordwest Magistrate's Court sitting on Thursday 9 March 2006.
As a regular nymph fisherman I have a box of just nymph fisherman I have a box of just nymphs and boxes for dry flies.
A Fisherman's Knot is formed from two identical overhand knots pushed together but it is only suitable for small diameter ropes or twine.
He's having sumptuous, juicy shrimp tacos made with shrimps just dropped off by the sun-beaten fisherman, I'm having jack cheese.
Now let me tell you a sad little tale about a Cornish fisherman.
To date it is the only tangible memorial to the fisherman.
Two deep-sea wreck divers receive a tip-off from a local fisherman about a site off the New Jersey coast.
The webmaster has childhood memories here of fisherman mending their nets and seeing urchins being prepared for eating.
These were at first purely symbolical, meaningless to any but a Christian eye, such as the Vine, the Good Shepherd, the Sheep, the Fisherman, the Fish, &c. Even the personages of ancient mythology were pressed into the service of early Christian art, and Orpheus, taming the wild beasts with his lyre, symbolized the peaceful sway of Christ; and Ulysses, deaf to the Siren's song, represented the Believer triumphing over the allurements of sensual pleasure.
It is exceedingly voracious, feeding on the smaller denizens of the ocean - fish, crustaceans, worms and molluscs, and greedily taking almost any bait the fisherman chooses to employ.
See John Quick's MS. Icones Sacrae Anglicanae, which gives the fisherman anecdote on the personal authority of one who was present; Life by Nethenus prefixed to collected edition of Latin works (5 vols., Amsterdam, 1658); Winwood's Memorials, vol.
The gods must be proud, thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed fisherman.
The traveller on the prairie is naturally a hunter, on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman.
Sailfish Cottage - A beautifully renovated Grade II listed fisherman 's cottage situated in the heart of the Downalong area of St Ives.
He 's having sumptuous, juicy shrimp tacos made with shrimps just dropped off by the sun-beaten fisherman, I 'm having jack cheese.
The tyro grayling fisherman needs to know that grayling are not trout.
Ramsgate Marina The busy harbor serves local fisherman and international yachtsmen alike, providing a wide range of facilities.