fisherman

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fisher, a person engaged in fishing

   A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

   • The fisherman casts her line.
   • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
2. 2

   A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.

   • They tortured and put to death English factors in the Spice Islands; they descended upon the fisheries of the North Sea in huge fleets escorted by men-of-war that attacked and sank the fishermen of other nations
   • Such boats should not have been fast, but the better fishermen — particularly John Alden's designs - […] won a big share of the offshore and coastwise races

The neighborhood

• synonymfisher
• neighborfisherwoman
• neighborfisher