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Definition of craypot in English: craypotnounˈkreɪpɒt Australian, NZ A trap resembling a basket, used for catching crayfish. his boat capsized while he was checking craypots off Cape Douglas Example sentencesExamples - The men left to check cray pots on the the western side of the island.
- With the island season approaching, now is a busy time for craypot manufacturers.
- He drowned while retrieving cray pots just beyond the breakers.
- The cray pot contained 40 undersized crayfish, some as small as 40 mm.
- The man believes he was cut by a stingray as he was retrieving a cray pot.
- You can walk a cray pot into the sea and find it teeming with catch the next day.
- I left with some friends to go tuna fishing and the boat's engine propellers got caught in craypot buoys.
- Rescue teams have spent three hours working to free a nine metre humpback whale tangled in a craypot rope.
- The victim was helping her husband pull a craypot on board their aluminium dinghy when the wave struck, flinging the couple on to rocks.
- The backdrop was a contrast between the beach and the bush, with a dinghy, cray pots, lighthouse, cockatoos, seashells, an outback toilet and windmill included in the display.
Origin Early 20th century: from a shortening of crayfish + pot1. |