Brailer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Brailer is a noun meaning A device for unloading large quantities of fish, consisting of a net of small-mesh webbing attached to a frame.
Meaning
A device for unloading large quantities of fish, consisting of a net of small-mesh webbing attached to a frame.
Example Sentences
The Margaret Ann's engineer will take his station at his own winch to haul up his brailer.
Working both booms on the dock and with all four of the deck crew in the hold loading brailers they had the old girl emptied out in less than two hours.
Smaller vessels offloading at floating or shore-based processors that do not have a vacuum/backwash system would typically offload using a brailer attached to a crane.
The man who threw the handle into the air then crosses over to the starboard side of the skiff and the three men together put all their weight onto the brailer handle and drive it down into the sack.
Word Forms
- brailers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trammel, creel, creeler, bowpicker, boulter, sedan.
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