Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pearl diver.
- noun A boat engaged in seeking or trading pearls.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pearl-diver; one who is engaged in pearl-fishing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls; a pearl diver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pearl diver . - noun A
boat used inpearl fishing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls
Etymologies
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Examples
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What a 'pearler', Good one Ben, I hope Gnoos will have a unique Aussie search for entries of this nature.
Mazda 323 For Sale, $600 - Comes with Blog Ben Barren 2006
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Rubén Rochina, Stoke City v Blackburn RoversSure, Blackburn were a defensive rabble as they lost at Stoke, a defeat which put them bottom, but at least they scored a pearler when the Spaniard found the top corner from 25 yards.
tiki-taka: Arsène Wenger and the biggest left-footed player ever 2011
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I ran a kids riding camp this summer and they kids were IN LOVE with pearler beads – who knows why, but they are cheap and one of the parents can iron them while you enjoy a cocktail.
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Just over 60 seconds later, St Mirren regained the lead thanks to Carey's pearler, but the visitors hit back, however, Stuart Armstrong heading home from close range to equalise for a second time.
Francisco Sandaza gives St Johnstone victory over Kilmarnock 2011
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Miccoli was indeed distraught after equalising for Palermo with a pearler just before half-time, and could be seen trudging back to the centre-circle, a look of abject misery on his face.
From which wedding venues can you see football stadiums? 2011
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A rotten hole now, though it was all right when the Flirt drove in the spikes and the Chink pearler traded for them.
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Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard Blue Tyson 2008
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I've posted from this source before Insect-Musicians and this tome is an absolute pearler - 'Being An Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City' or the "History of the Yosiwara Yukwaku" by Joseph De Becker.
The Sexual Life of Japan tellurian 2008
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I've posted from this source before Insect-Musicians and this tome is an absolute pearler - 'Being An Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City' or the "History of the Yosiwara Yukwaku" by Joseph De Becker.
Archive 2008-06-01 tellurian 2008
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Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk.
Archive 2008-10-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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