purse seinern.
/ˈpəː(s) ˌseɪnə/, U.S. /ˈpər(s) ˌseɪnər/ A person engaged in fishing with a purse seine. Also: a boat used in purse seine fishing.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > seine-netter
seine-boat1602
purse seiner1882
seiner1906
seine-netter1947
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using seine-net
seiner1602
blowser1816
shooter1855
seine-tender1856
seine-man1879
purse seiner1882
1882 Forest & Stream 3 Aug. 11/2 As a whole the menhaden purse seiners don't catch food fish enough to supply the men on the steamers and at their factories.
1884 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. 3/3 Both the menhaden and mackerel purse seiners would accept a law prohibiting purse seining prior to the 1st or 15 of June.
1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez i. 7 The purse-seiners of Monterey..are dependable work-boats.
1979 P. Benchley Island i. 13 Commercial purse-seiners telling their wives when to expect them home.
2005 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 3 Under the moratorium, trawlers and purse seiners would be barred from fishing in June and July in all Hong Kong waters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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