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sternpickers

sternpickers is the plural of sternpicker.

Meaning of sternpicker

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

Questions about sternpickers

What is sternpickers the plural of?
Sternpickers is the plural of sternpicker.

Words near sternpickers in the dictionary

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

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