"sternpicker" meaning in All languages combined

See sternpicker on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sternpickers [plural]
Etymology: stern + picker Etymology templates: {{compound|en|stern|picker}} stern + picker Head templates: {{en-noun}} sternpicker (plural sternpickers)
  1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the stern of the boat. Categories (topical): Watercraft Related terms: bowpicker
    Sense id: en-sternpicker-en-noun-njPHl56T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The modern sternpickers are quite a different matter. Sleek, efficient, redolent of power, they easily spool their 1,500-foot nets off large drums set on the afterdeck and have taken most of the back-breaking work out of fishing, although enough remains to still qualify it as very hard work.",
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          "ref": "2012, Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place",
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