dragman

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

drag +‎ -man

Noun[edit]

dragman (plural dragmen)

  1. A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
    • 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
      great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture

References[edit]

“dragman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

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