trawlern.

1630 in Descr. of Thames (1758) 76 No Trawler to work in Tilbury Hope after Michaelmas, with any Manner of Net under four Inches for Plaice all the Net over. And no Trawler To come upon any Trawl with any other Net at any Time of the Year.

1630 Order in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 77 No Trawler that..doth use to Trawl to take Soal, Chates, Plaice or Thorn-back.

1652 Order Council of State May 31– June 10 in First Dutch War (Navy Rec. Soc.) I. 258 The Council did not intend..that fishermen..trawlers and others..should be stayed.

1864 Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept. If trawling recommences all will become trawlers.

1864 Glasgow Daily Herald 24 Sept. The trawlers have damaged my nets, and stolen some of them, too.

1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trawler, a fishing vessel which trails or drags a net behind it. (Eng.)

1863 W. F. Campbell & J. F. Campbell Life in Normandy II. xiii. 254 When I was in a trawler we always studied the run of the tide..and ran as clear before it as we could.

1881 Times 21 Dec. 4/4 An action of salvage for services rendered by the owners, masters, and crews of the steam trawler Restless Wave, and the smacks Urgent and Harry Sinclair, to the iron ship Culzean.

1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) ix. 114 The modern plan of fitting the trawlers with steam-capstans had not come..into vogue.

1599 High Court of Admiralty Exam. 34, Jan. 31 There came..Thomas Segar with his trawler boat.

1909 Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 1/4 The Picton Castle, a steam trawler belonging to the Castle trawler fleet..has been capsized in the River Douro.

1618 A. Munday Stow's Suruay of London (new ed.) 32 Fishermen..stiled by the name of Trinkermen,..Hebbermen, Petermen, Trawlermen, &c. that haue liued (in precedent times) by very vnlawfull fishing on this Riuer.

1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Iii2 Trawlermen, Of those Fisher-men who used unlawful Arts and Engines to destroy the Fish upon the River Thames.

1839–40 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xiv The ferries across the river, and..the pirates who infest the same—namely tinklermen, petermen, hebbermen, trawlermen.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Oct. 7/5 Trawlermen of Hampton, Phoebus, Portsmouth and nearby harbors are planning a union.

1958 Times 9 Oct. 11/6 The distant water trawlermen..are doing work that for its hazards, long hours, and gruelling conditions would be difficult to compare with any job ashore.

1976 ‘W. Trevor’ Children of Dynmouth i. 9 A few boys became trawler-men, but life was easier and richer at the fish-packing station.

1984 Times 20 Feb. 1/4 As the son of a trawlerman..he wanted to see the very highest level of safety of people crewing vessels of all kinds.