Thesaurus results for SEINER

seiner

noun

Definition of seiner

as in whaler

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Recent Examples of seiner The ships use purse seiner nets and demersal trawlers, destroying the coral underneath and, consequently, the habitat for fish. — Nicole Tung, NPR, 18 Apr. 2026 Ich war sicher, dass sie das als Hinweis auf eine benötigte Änderung seiner Einstellung meinte, doch der Empfänger stellte sich den Teller auf seine Kommode, weil er die Botschaft offenbar passend fand. — Suzanne Riedel, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2026 Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023 Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist. — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023 The Western Flyer, a 77-foot purse seiner built of old-growth Douglas fir in 1937, has outlasted nearly all its contemporaries, despite its sinkings. — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019 Ellenbogen and a team of scientists observed the tuna being caught by large purse seiner fishing boats from Turkey, France, Spain, and Italy among other countries, with some illegally using spotter planes to locate the fish. — Rebecca Horne, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010

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Noun

Shackleton purchased a wooden Norwegian whaler, Foca I, which his wife Emily renamed Quest.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
While en route to ship out on a Nantucket whaler, Ishmael spends a night at New Bedford’s Spouter-Inn, a night which quickly takes on the semblance of stage farce.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of whaler

Noun

One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025

Definition of whaleboat

Noun

The 57-year-old North Carolinian had tried his hand as a Goldman Sachs investment banker, Sports Illustrated columnist and startup co-founder.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026
McKenzie, a former banker in commercial real estate financing, founded the business in 2009, with a focus on lending money to professional athletes against the value of their contracts.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of banker

Noun

From time to time, Li Shan would offer Noe a sum impressive to a fisherman to sail his lugger—a forty-foot vessel made for the shallower waters of home into the Gulf to meet a ship bound for New Orleans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025

Definition of lugger

Noun

Unfortunately, hundreds of people waited ahead of them to board the next ferry to that prime tourist destination.

— Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026
The Valkyries began their day of celebration at Oakland's Jack London Square neighborhood, not far from the team's downtown practice facility, then took a ferry across the bay to begin the parade from San Francisco's Ferry Building.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of ferry

Noun

The price tag on working gillnetters can be as low as ten grand for an out-of-repair fiberglass Rawson or as much as $400,000 for a fancy new aluminum drift boat with full refrigeration.

— John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
In Puget Sound, gillnetter Pete Knutson competes against 70-foot purse seiners that are usually corporate-owned.

— Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018

Definition of gillnetter

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