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sternpicker

sternpicker noun: a gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.

Noun

sternpicker (plural sternpickers)

  1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.
    • The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work.1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146
    • Word got around that it had won the Columbia River fishing boat race, as a bowpicker, before being rebuilt as a sternpicker for the Inlet fishery.2008, Bert Bender, Catching the Ebb: Drift-fishing for a Life in Cook Inlet, →ISBN, page 145

Forms of sternpicker

pluralsternpickers

Origin of sternpicker

From stern + picker.

Questions about sternpicker

What does sternpicker mean?
Sternpicker means a gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.
What part of speech is sternpicker?
Sternpicker is a noun.
What is the plural of sternpicker?
The plural of sternpicker is sternpickers.

Words near sternpicker in the dictionary

  1. sternotomy
  2. sternotracheal
  3. sternotribal
  4. sternotribe
  5. sternovertebral
  6. sternpicker
  7. sternpickers
  8. sternport
  9. sternports
  10. sternpost
  11. sternposts

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