dragman
English
Etymology
drag + -man
Noun
dragman (plural dragmen)
- 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
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ
References
dragman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Grandma, grandam, grandma