bowpicker
/ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/
bowpicker noun: a gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
Noun
bowpicker (plural bowpickers)
- A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
- The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146
- It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103
Forms of bowpicker
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Origin of bowpicker
From bow + picker.
Questions about bowpicker
- What does bowpicker mean?
- Bowpicker means a gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
- What part of speech is bowpicker?
- Bowpicker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bowpicker?
- Bowpicker is pronounced /ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of bowpicker?
- The plural of bowpicker is bowpickers.
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