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bowpickers

bowpickers is the plural of bowpicker.

Meaning of bowpicker

Noun

bowpicker (plural bowpickers)

  1. 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

Questions about bowpickers

What is bowpickers the plural of?
Bowpickers is the plural of bowpicker.

Words near bowpickers in the dictionary

  1. Bowness-on-Windermere
  2. bowning
  3. Bowns
  4. bowperson
  5. bowpicker
  6. bowpickers
  7. bowplane
  8. bowplanes
  9. bowpot
  10. bowpots
  11. bowrail

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