2. Noun. A boat used for prawn fishing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prawner
1. one that prawns [n -S] - See also: prawns
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prawner
Literary usage of Prawner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"The " prawner " has a stick some seven feet long, with notches at the top; as
the tide goes down he puts his net among the rocks, and leaving it a few ..."
2. Letters to a Salmon Fisher's Sons by Alfred Henry Chaytor (1910)
"Many a good stretch of water is rendered almost useless to you by having a
persistent prawner constantly fishing up and down the opposite bank. ..."
3. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"... the flood—ie often the best time for prawning—the sea may come swirling round
those rocks and cut off the careless and absorbed prawner from dry land, ..."
4. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"... between three sets of triangles when it is travelling across stream, and not
get hooked, but the prawner will have this occur again and again. ..."
5. Curiosities of Natural History: Second Series by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1860)
"The " prawner" has a stick some seven feet long, with notches at the top; as the
tide goes down he puts his net among the rocks, and leaving it a few ..."
6. Nature and Sport in Britain by Henry Anderson Bryden (1904)
"The prawner is provided with a couple—or more if he chooses—of circular, leaded
nets. Each "gin " has a half-hoop crossing it, to which is attached a 6-feet ..."
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