shellfisher

shellfisher

English

Etymology

shellfish +‎ -er

Noun

shellfisher (plural shellfishers)

1. Synonym of shellfisherman
   • 1927, Madras Fisheries Bulletin - Volume 18, page 73:

     The shellfisher's object is to intercept these and drag them back in his net before a new breaker scatters them up the beach again.

   • 1981, Donald Stevenson Watson, ‎Malcolm Getz, Price Theory and Its Uses, page 311:

     Each shellfisher benefits from the hot water whether he or she pays or not. Thus if other shellfishers pay for the hot water, there is no need for an individual shellfisher to do so. Once the temperature of the river is up for one shellfisher, it has increased for all. Anyone of them can act as a free rider, relying on others to pay for the warm water.

   • 2002, Coast Watch, page 20:

     If Nautilus of Greek mythology had been a shellfisher, it would be clear how the exercise equipment got its name.

   • 2007, Bland Simpson, The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle, →ISBN:

     After the tour I lingered on, and Jim and I talked a bit there by the waterway about the vagaries of being a shellfisher in the modern age.