prawnern.

1860 F. T. Buckland Curiosities Nat. Hist. 340 The ‘prawner’..puts his net among the rocks, and leaving it a few minutes hauls it up on the stick with a jerk, as the prawn is an active fellow and soon jumps out.

1886 Globe 16 July Every one cannot be a successful prawner.

1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 590/1 Often when a prawner can persuade a salmon, a fly-fisherman would have no chance.

1976 Post Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin) 4 Jan. d10 She has been a professional fisherwoman, prawner and shark catcher since she was 14 years old.

2005 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 24 The prawner must bring his net up to the surface without any hesitation in his forward thrust, otherwise all is lost.

1887 Times 21 May 5/1 ‘Prawners beaching’—a small sketch remarkable for the intelligence with which the rocks are rendered.

1973 W. Elmer Terminol. Fishing i. 26 In the west, an impressive pattern is formed by the distribution of the prawners and shrimpers of the Cumberland and Lancashire coast, and the Lancashire nobby.

1988 Intercity (Brit. Railways Board) July 39/1 Morecambe Bay fishermen hunt the brown shrimp in open boats called prawners.

2003 Ships Monthly Sept. 6/2 Also in attendance was a variety of historical craft, such as the Nobby boats, former Morecambe Bay prawners that took part in the annual Nobby race on the river.