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/lˈɑbstərmən/ Listen

Lobsterman

noun

(pl. lobstermen)

A person whose occupation is catching lobsters.

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"Lobsterman" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sometimes it costs a man dear. I know of two cases, within twenty-five miles of this island, where men have been shot dead for that very thing. About as unhealthy as stealing horses out West, if you're caught. Like everything else, now and then it has its funny side. Once a lobsterman lost his watch, chain and all; for a day or two he was asking everybody he met if they'd seen it. A neighbor of his went out to pull his own traps. In one of them he found the first man's watch, hanging by its chain to the door, just where it had been caught and twitched out of its owner's ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... house-tops; across the ocean the sun shone gloriously, and pouring its beams upon the dew-sprinkled grass, turned their blades into sparkling sheaths which mocked poor Mary, searching for false diamonds. No one was in sight but a lobsterman out in his dory. From one or two chimneys the smoke was beginning to curl, showing that there were other early risers. Mary stepped along anxiously, looking this side and that, and with her hands pushing the grass aside in places. Little by little she made her way toward the landing. She would ...

— Three Little Cousins • Amy E. Blanchard

Words linked to "Lobsterman" : trained worker, skilled worker, skilled workman