bowpicker

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English

Etymology

From bow +‎ picker.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/

Noun

bowpicker (plural bowpickers)

  1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
    • 1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:
      The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.
    • 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:
      It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.
    • 2006, Seabird Avoidance Measures for Small Alaskan Longline Vessels:
      The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.
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