Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who owns or uses gill-nets.
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Examples
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He then worked full-time on a gill-netter for minimum wage and a share of the catch.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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He then worked full-time on a gill-netter for minimum wage and a share of the catch.
Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992
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The gill-netter would take five hundred in one drift, come in to the cannery loaded to the guards, find himself up against a limit.
Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Washington salmon battles had reached the point where a state officer shot a gill-netter who was illegally fishing off the Kitsap Peninsula.
The Seattle Times 2010
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"even if," he says, "you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter."
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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