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dorymen

  • plural
    of doryman.
    doryman
    noun
    a person who uses a dory, especially a person who engages in fishing, lobstering, etc.

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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

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

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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