bowpicker
English
Etymology
bow + picker
Noun
bowpicker (plural bowpickers)
- A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
- 1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:
- The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.
- 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:
- It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.
- 2006, Seabird Avoidance Measures for Small Alaskan Longline Vessels:
- The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.
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Related terms
- sternpicker