volliern.
south-western dialect.
(See quot. 1855.)
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1855 Househ. Words 23 Sept. 130/1 [In pilchard fishing] there is a second or assisting boat, called the volyer, which carries another net, called the tuck-seine.
a1870 J. Couch Hist. Polperro (1871) vi. 106 A second boat, the volyer,..has another sean-net of a hundred or more fathoms in length, and eighteen in depth.
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