pearler
9.9
A person who dives underwater to find shells with pearls
- noun
- /ˈpɪr.lɚ/
- Australian
:
buceador de perlas
- The pearler expertly navigated the waters, searching for molluscs to harvest their precious pearls.
Examples
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As a skilled pearler, she spends her days diving deep into the ocean for valuable pearls.
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Many aspiring pearlers travel to tropical regions to learn the art of diving for pearls.
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Oh, my God, you little pearler.
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An early English resident, pearler, and goldminer, David White (1893), noticed that garden size increased due to the growing availability of metal tools over five years in the late 1880s.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
pearl diver
vspearler
1
6.4
A person who dives underwater to collect pearls from oysters
is the same activity described with a different name
ama
vspearler
9.9
A Japanese woman who dives without breathing gear to collect shellfish or pearls
is a general term for anyone diving for pearls not a cultural female tradition
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pearler is made from pearl (the shiny gem found inside a shell) and the ending -er, which means 'one who'. So a pearler is literally 'one who gets pearls', often by diving into the sea to open shells.