cockler
Britishnoun
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There has been a search of the entire area and everyone involved has made strenuous efforts to find this missing cockler.
From BBC
A night-time rescue operation was launched after one cockler, Guo Bing Long, called 999 and said: "Sinking water, many many, sinking water... Sinking water, sinking water."
From BBC
Sinking Water, which takes its name from a cockler's emergency call on 5 February 2004, would "humanise" what happened, writer Daniel York said.
From BBC
The body of a cockler has been found off the Wirral coast in Merseyside, the coastguard has confirmed.
From BBC
The loud lunge of the sea was interrupted solely by the cry of the fisherman, and the "cockler's" whistle, plying his scanty trade among the shoals and sandbanks about the coast.
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