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sternpicker

noun

Etymology

From stern + picker.

  1. derived from פּיקן — “to peck”
  2. borrowed from Picker
  3. borrowed from Picker
  4. compounded as sternpicker — “stern + picker”

Definitions

  1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat.

    • 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.
    • As the fishery evolved, the practical and beautiful butterfly fleet—dories named for their widespread sails—gave way to more prosaic but still handsome diesel sternpickers and bowpickers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA