Dragman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fisherman who uses a dragnet.

    "great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture"

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"great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture"

Etymology

From drag + -man.

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