Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man whose occupation is catching lobsters.
- noun A ship used in locating and catching lobsters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who catches lobsters.
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- noun A
fisherman forlobsters .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person whose occupation is catching lobsters
Etymologies
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Examples
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Throughout this process I kept making jokes about health reform being amended to include a lobsterman bailout to get Senators Collins & Snowe to sign on, and I really thought something like that would work.
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Specially that of one Alan Budney, disaffected son of a lobsterman, now a drug kingpin, who uses the closed, clannish lobster fishing community and his extended family in particular, to move drugs along the New England coast.
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The island drew national attention last summer when a lobsterman shot a fellow lobsterman in a territorial dispute.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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"The board needs to confront the reality of destroying the fishery to save the lobsters," said Bill McElroy, a Rhode Island lobsterman and board member.
Lobster Fishing Ban KILLED: East Coast Fishermen Fought Proposed Moratorium (PHOTOS) 2010
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And in the great state of Maine, the lobstermen out there - I was a lobsterman the summer before I left home - use a measure to measure if a lobster's too big or too small to keep.
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Ronnie Ames, 67, a lifelong Matinicus lobsterman, said Hussey's no threat to anybody on the island.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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Long Island lobsterman John German said he was relieved the moratorium was killed.
Lobster Fishing Ban KILLED: East Coast Fishermen Fought Proposed Moratorium (PHOTOS) 2010
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Long Island lobsterman John German said he was relieved the moratorium was killed.
Lobster Fishing Ban KILLED: East Coast Fishermen Fought Proposed Moratorium (PHOTOS) 2010
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"The board needs to confront the reality of destroying the fishery to save the lobsters," said Bill McElroy, a Rhode Island lobsterman and board member.
Lobster Fishing Ban KILLED: East Coast Fishermen Fought Proposed Moratorium (PHOTOS) 2010
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It's been decades since anybody's seen a working lobsterman on Matinicus – and perhaps in Maine – earn a day's pay rowing to his traps and hauling them by hand.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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