Definition of Putcher

1. a wire trap for catching salmon [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Putcher

putamen
putamens
putamina
putating
putative
putative(a)
putatively
putaway
putback
putbacks
putchamin
putchamins
putcheon
putcheons
putcher (current term)
putchers
putchock
putchocks
putchuk
putchuks
putdown
putdownable
putdowns
puteal
puteals
puteli
putelis
puters
putid

Literary usage of Putcher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"putcher fishing has one disadvantage : the owner very often does not get his catch. Regular putcher thieves will go round in a boat and search the ..."

2. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"putcher fishing has one disadvantage : the owner very often does not get his catch. Regular putcher thieves will go round in a boat and search the ..."

3. The life and adventures of Valentine Vox, the ventriloquist by Henry Cockton (1854)
"... find Pull the putcher." " Yes too, Louey, come ; hur shoot like apoye all things in the worlt to know phere he's to be fount, ..."

4. The Forest of Dean by Arthur Owens Cooke (1913)
"is the number of wicker traps to be placed in a " putcher " limited—the Poulton tenant has about six hundred here ; but the season is shorter than that for ..."

5. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox (1870)
"A putcher is a cf':..:J or funnel shaped basket made of twenty straight rods fastened together at intervals b}- four or ivt hoops of decreasing size, ..."

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