dragman

English

Etymology

drag +‎ -man

Noun

dragman (plural dragmen)

  1. A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
    • 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ
      great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture

References

dragman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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