Sternpicker
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.
"The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work."
Example
More examples"The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work."
Etymology
From stern + picker.
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