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A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:; Any person who attempts to catch fish.
- The fisherman casts her line.
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A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:; A person whose profession is catching fish.
- He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.
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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
syn. fisher