purse-seines
purse-seines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of purse-seine.
Meaning of purse-seine
Verb
purse-seine (third-person singular simple present purse-seines, present participle purse-seining, simple past and past participle purse-seined)
- To fish using a purse seine.
- Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small. John, born in 1945, […] began in a little dory with his father. They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228
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- Purse-seines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of purse-seine.
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