dragman
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdragman (plural dragmen)
- A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
- 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
- great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture
References
edit“dragman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.