Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mode of fishing for cod, by stringing a number of hooks on one line, practised on the Newfoundland banks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
trawl ; aboulter . - noun The mode of
fishing with aboulter orspiller .
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Examples
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For the capture of the cod, both in Newfoundland and in the North Sea, what is called the bultow is used.
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For the capture of the cod, both in Newfoundland and in the North Sea, what is called the bultow is used.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The bultow is “shot” across the tide to prevent entanglement of the hooks, and is laid in the afternoon.
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The bultow is "shot" across the tide to prevent entanglement of the hooks, and is laid in the afternoon.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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The cod are taken by the hook-and-line, the seine, the cod-net or gill-net, the cod-trap and the bultow; Brazil and Spain are the largest customers.
chained_bear commented on the word bultow
"The French outfitted their Terre-Neuve fleets with longlines, otherwise known as trawl lines, setlines, or bultows. Until then, the principal technique for cod fishing throughout the North Atlantic had been handlining.... Records show the British sic used longlines off of Iceland in 1482, and they may have been used earlier...."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 118
July 16, 2009