fisherman

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English fisher Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English fisherman From fisher + -man.

1. 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. A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

   “He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.”

   “I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.”

3. 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”