trollern.
/ˈtrəʊlə/, /ˈtrɒlə/, U.S. /ˈtroʊlər/ 1. One who trolls catches, songs, etc.: see troll v. 10.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > other types of singer > [noun] > other singers
knackerc1380
jubilist1471
sol-faer1609
serenader1677
comic singer1753
ranter1769
country singer1790
caroler1806
chansonnier1822
troller1824
cantabank1834
triller1873
lion comique1899
chantwell1909
red-hot mama1924
song stylist1931
singer-songwriter1949
playback singer1963
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 113 A troller of profane catches.
1826 H. Roscoe North's Lives (new ed.) II. 205 He was a great troller [1742 Proller] of songs.
2.
a. Angling. One who trolls for pike, etc.: see troll v. 13.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler > others
troller1653
ground angler1835
spinner1836
bankster1885
switcher1893
plunker1926
moocher1947
flatliner1984
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 9 The best Trouler, for a Pike, in this Realme.
1682 R. Nobbes (title) The compleat troller, or, the art of trolling.
1820 T. F. Salter (title) The troller's guide; a practical treatise on the art of trolling or fishing for jack and pike.
1894 Field 1 Dec. 838/2 The trollers killed ten.
b. A trolling-rod.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 103/1 A Trowling Rod, or a Trowler, hath a ring at the end of the Rod for the Line to run through, when it runs off a Reele.]
Draft additions 1993
c. A fishing-boat used for trolling a line. North American (chiefly Canadian).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > using lines
line-boat1614
longliner1874
troller1920
1920 B. W. Sinclair Poor Man's Rock 293 Trollers began to follow. They clustered about the big carrier like chickens under the mother wing.
1960 M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds iii. 62 Trollers, being made for utility rather than speed, do not travel very fast.
1987 New 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.
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