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purse-seining

purse-seining is the present participle and gerund 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)

  1. 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

Questions about purse-seining

What is purse-seining the present participle and gerund of?
Purse-seining is the present participle and gerund of purse-seine.

Words near purse-seining in the dictionary

  1. purse-pride
  2. purse-proud
  3. purse-seine
  4. purse-seined
  5. purse-seines
  6. purse-seining
  7. purse-string
  8. purse-string suture
  9. pursed
  10. purseful
  11. pursefuls

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