mackerelern.
/ˈmak(ə)rələ/, U.S. /ˈmæk(ə)rələr/ Now rare (also historical).
a. A person who goes mackerel-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for mackerel
mackerel fisher1663
mackereler1880
1880 A. W. Tourgée Bricks without Straw 430 Perhaps they were not cod-fishers but mackerelers.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 272 Here is a model of that vast net used by the mackereler.
1886 Cent. Mag. 32 824 The mackerelers do not keep together so much as formerly.
2001 archives.obs-us.com 14 Dec. (O.E.D. Archive) At the end of the Harbor Loop the small Solomon Jacobs park honoring the King of the Mackerelers affords a close-up view of the harbor where the East Gloucester steam ferry used to land.
b. A boat used in mackerel fishing.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for mackerel
mackerel-boat1652
mackerel smack1697
mackereler1889
1889 K. Munroe Dory Mates 31 Any fishing vessel but a mackereller going out at this stormy season would have left both top-masts..at home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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