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Webster 1913 Edition
Shrimper
Shrimp′er
,Noun.
One who fishes for shrimps.
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English
Noun
shrimper (plural shrimpers)
- One who fishes for or catches shrimp.
- 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)
- Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
- 2008 January 10, Brenda Goodman, “4 Children Flung From Bridge, Police Say”, in New York Times:
- On Monday, Mr. Luong, a Vietnamese immigrant who has been working in Bayou La Batre as a shrimper, and his wife, Ngoc Phan, 23, contacted the police to report that their children were missing, Chief Joyner said.
- 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)