Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who owns or uses gill-nets.

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Examples

  • He then worked full-time on a gill-netter for minimum wage and a share of the catch.

    Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992

  • He then worked full-time on a gill-netter for minimum wage and a share of the catch.

    Pressure Point Dick Couch 1992

  • 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

  • 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

  • "even if," he says, "you discount the hate mail from spin-casters and the stray gill-netter."

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

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