hakern.
/ˈheɪkə/, U.S. /ˈheɪkər/ A boat used in hake fishing (now rare). Formerly also: †a fisherman who fishes for hake (obsolete).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for other species of fish
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1856 J. Reynolds Peter Gott viii. 101 Peter determined to join one of these gangs of hakers.
1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 340/1 The man who fished for hake, and also his boat, was a ‘haker’.
1886 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Feb. 203/2 The little harbor, as they swept across it, was speckled with hakers, trawlers, and long, sharp seine-boats.
1991 Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. On several occasions [he has] been threatened, while in his 50ft wooden boat, by a Spanish haker, 100ft or more.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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