[1595–1605; seine + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: exposure, option, posture, redundant, zero-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'seiner' in a sentence
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Validation against expert-labeled datasets showed average detection accuracies of 83% for trawler and longliner, and 97% for purse seiner.
Erico N. de Souza, Kristina Boerder, Stan Matwin, Boris Worm 2016, 'Improving Fishing Pattern Detection from Satellite AIS Using Data Mining and MachineLearning', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0158248. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)