1652 No. 27. 215 The Grubbs report, That the High and Mighty Pilcher-Catchers are now leavying every fift man from 16 to 60, throughout all the United Provinces, to be mustered and trained up on Land to make Sea-men.
1860 W. E. Boardman ii. 63 Four months of the year he plied his seine for pilchards, but he caught pilchard catchers the whole year round.