Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who takes fish with a trawl; a trawler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fisherman on atrawler
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Examples
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Bernie Ecclestone, 81, born in Suffolk, the son of a trawlerman, has been a powerful voice and an extremely hands-on supremo in Formula 1 for four decades.
Bernie Ecclestone paid German £27m to 'keep him quiet and peaceful' 2011
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What Triesman suffered was a fishing expedition, in which Jacobs was the trawlerman, the ubiquitous Max Clifford the dockside salesman and the Mail on Sunday the wholesaler.
Whose interests are being served by this squalid tale of entrapment? 2010
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Of course, this is palpably untrue since, with the exception of Miranda, they don't wear those trawlerman beards that all gay men do these days.
Caroline Hagood: Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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Of course, this is palpably untrue since, with the exception of Miranda, they don't wear those trawlerman beards that all gay men do these days.
Mark Simpson and Caroline Hagood on Wo-Metrosexuality and the City 2010
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A Pentrevah girl got herself in trouble with a young trawlerman and they eloped to the States.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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Conservative MP for South East Cornwall Sheryll Murray, whose trawlerman husband died at sea, wanted reassurances that no coastguard co-ordination centres would close before the new system works.
BBC News - Home 2011
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If you were lucky enough to be standing on the dock in 1988 or whenever you were gifted the right to plunder the ocean - then when it got too competitive for you, you sell it to the lowest paid crew, and walk away with a bundle fo cash, etc., Now some Spanish trawlerman on subsistence wages, who owns nothing, is gauging every last fish out of the sea - for corporate paymasters.
The Guardian World News Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2011
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The body of trawlerman Neil Murray, 57, was found onboard his boat off the Cornish coast when he failed to return to Looe Harbour after a day out alone at sea on Thursday.
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For a start, Bernie Ecclestone, the tiddler-sized son of a Lowestoft trawlerman, isn't of the type to spoil anybody.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph William Langley 2011
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According to the BBC, trawlerman Benito Estevez fished the camera out with five holiday pictures intact on its SD card, off the west coast of Europe.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
Prolagus commented on the word trawlerman
Cf. trawler. Found in two songs (by Vashti Bunyan and Mark Knopfler).
October 17, 2009