crabber
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈkræbər/
- Specialized
:
barco cangrejero
- On the Boiling Crab restaurant's website, the owner explains that it "all began in a little Southeastern Texas town called Seadrift" where he and his family worked as shrimpers and crabbers.
Examples
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As recently as 1949, a Maryland crabber illegally operating in Virginia was shot and killed by Virginia marine police.
Academic text (1994) -
There's a cold water crabber moored off Broken Rock.
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For instance, over the years, crab chum was a disposal problem for crabbers on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Academic text (2000) -
My colleagues and I, along with Oregon Sea Grant, realized the significant need for partnership and collaboration with stakeholders in the offshore ecosystem, such as fishermen and crabbers.
Academic text (2006) -
Some of these immigrants established themselves in the region's seafood economy as crabbers, shrimpers, and seafood retailers, occupations they had held in Vietnam (Burrage 2009).
Academic text (2013) -
Our sport-fishing boat, Byline, was tied up alongside; I stepped aboard, fetched back a crabber's dip-net, and retrieved the visitor when it drifted within reach.
Fiction book (2000) -
The commercial crabber left the harbor early in the morning to catch as many crabs as possible.
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We saw a large crabber anchored near the shore, preparing to unload its recent catch of crabs.
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The fishermen operated a small crabber, which they used to catch crabs for the local seafood market.
Synonyms
11
4.4
A fishing boat that catches fish by dragging a large net through the water
1
6.5
A boat used to catch shrimp
1
8.1
A boat that uses large nets to catch fish from the sea
A person or boat that catches fish with a large net
A large motor boat used for fishing for big fish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crabber for a boat comes from the animal crab plus the ending -er, which means 'one who' or 'that which'. So a crabber is literally a boat 'that catches crabs', used for crab fishing.