What does fisherette mean?
Fisherette means (chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish)..
If you are a fisherman or a “fisherette” you may write to one of the advertisers in The New Department for a fly-book.
Introducing the Fisherette / A NEW EXPERIMENT IN WAR WORK FOR WOMEN—PLUCKY NOVA SCOTIANS TAKE TO FISH CLEANING IN OIL-SKINS AND SOU’WESTERS[…]And here is where the fisherette comes in! If women can help on the farms, in the factories, in industries of every kind, they are surely fitted to take their places by the fishermen, and if they cannot go out in dories to catch the precious sea food, they can at least have a share in handling it on shore.
James E. Goodban, local authority on deep sea fishing, was invited by Mr. Van Dorin to join the party and under his and Mr. Van Dorin’s directions, the visiting fishermen—and fisherettes — were successful in landing a fine catch of albacore.
But, somehow, I felt a bit self-conscious, embarrassed almost as though I had caught some young angler kissing a fisherette.
ARNOLD KENT and MARINA GOYA, interpretative dancers are respectively a stowaway and a sailorette on a sailboat which, strangely enough, is manned by young, romantic gals. To the strains of a romantic tune, the sailorettes go thru the undulating body motions of a hula. The title: Fisherettes Catch.
A fisherette from Berry, Miss Mildred Cannon, helped Wiley Cannon, also of Berry, and J. W. Fulmer, of Bankston, bring in a string of 41 bream and bass.
Playful Porpoise leaps into air to snatch food from pretty fisherettes at the “Theater of the Sea.”
The production of seafood was somewhat handicapped this past week by the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo which took place off the coast of Dauphin Island at the entrance to Mobile Bay on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this past week and in which fifteen hundred fishermen and fisherettes participated and it was “the biggest and best” in years.
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Fisherette means (chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If you are a fisherman or a “fisherette” you may write to one of the advertisers in The New Department for a fly-book.
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