Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who uses a gill net to catch fish.
- noun A boat used in fishing with gill nets.
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Examples
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The gillnetter is a long, boxy boat that rides low in the water.
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The gillnetter is a long, boxy boat that rides low in the water.
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That boat was the only gillnetter fishing Johnstone Strait.
Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008
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That's a Pacific coast gillnetter in Johnstone Straits pulling its nets.
Archive 2008-08-01 West End Bob 2008
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The man who had dived off the swamped skiff had bobbed up to the surface and one of his crewmates on the gillnetter ran a boat hook out for him to grab on to and hauled him on board.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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It looked twice as large and three times as powerful as the little gillnetter heading over to challenge it.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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"The Mary J. 's down there -- the gillnetter with the pink trim line."
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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One of the two poaching gillnetters was still being fended off by Mike's boat, every zig of the gillnetter being met by a zag from Mike's.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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Liam met the harbormaster on the slip next to the little gillnetter.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
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Mike's catch looked smallest of all, but then he'd been busy for much of the opener fending off the encroaching gillnetter, which Liam privately thought was a little greedy of him-surely in a ball that size there was more than enough herring to go around.
Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998
jodi commented on the word gillnetter
Wiktionary: "One who fishes using a gillnet."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gillnetter
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word gillnetter
most of the examples point to the boat being called a gilnetter.
June 21, 2017