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発音

• IPA: /ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/

名詞

bowpicker (plural bowpickers)

1. A gillnet boat that deploys the net from the bow of the boat.
   • 1985, Earl Roberge, Columbia: Great River of the West, page 146:

     The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable.

   • 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:

     It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern.

   • 2006, Seabird Avoidance Measures for Small Alaskan Longline Vessels:

     The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe.

関連する語

• sternpicker