doryman
Americannoun
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dorymen
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Turner looked at them through his window; he could almost see them puffing: In the dark, the cranked horn of a doryman sounded, and then another, higher pitched.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The doryman who had brought Captain Wass rowed them to the wharf.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
From the Adirondack lakes, he followed streams in his fishing scenes down to where lonely dorymen bobbed on the icy Atlantic banks and sailors were blown through tropical cays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two of his dorymen ferried him after the schooner had been hove to near the wreck.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Those men are now without any work at all because the owners of the other fish stands have all the trawlers and dorymen they need.
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
Even she did not know, as Code did, how nearly destitute some of the dorymen were.
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
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