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Thus armed, the turtler sculls over the reef, striking the turtle either as it lies asleep on the bottom or as it rises to breathe.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

Unless some wrecker, or turtler, fell in with him, and took him off.

From Jack Tier by Cooper, James Fenimore

It was occasionally visited by a passing fisherman, or turtler, and a few goat-herds, from the main-land, had come over to pasture some goats on the coarse grass.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael