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troller|ˈtrəʊlə(r)|
Forms: see troll v.
[f. troll v. + -er1.]
1. One who trolls catches, songs, etc.: see troll v. 10.
a1734North Lives (1826) II. 205 He was a great troller of songs. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 113 A troller of profane catches.
2. Angling. One who trolls for pike, etc.: see troll v. 13.
1651–7T. Barker Art of Angling (1659) 30 The best Trouler for a Pike within this Realm of England. 1682Nobbes (title) The Compleat Troller, or the Art of Trolling. 1820T. F. Salter (title) The troller's guide; a practical treatise on the art of trolling or fishing for jack and pike. 1894Field 1 Dec. 838/2 The trollers killed ten.
b. A trolling-rod.
1688[see trolling-rod s.v. trolling vbl. n. 4].
Add:[2.] c. A fishing-boat used for trolling a line. N. Amer. (chiefly Canad.).
1920B. W. Sinclair Poor Man's Rock 293 Trollers began to follow. They clustered about the big carrier like chickens under the mother wing. 1960M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds iii. 62 Trollers, being made for utility rather than speed, do not travel very fast. 1987New Yorker 6 July 62/1, I spent several summers aboard one of them—accompanying my husband,..a commercial salmon fisherman, on his forty-one-foot troller. |