Definitions for fishermen

fishermen fish·er·man

Spelling: [fish-er-muh n]
IPA: /ˈfɪʃ ər mən/

Fishermen is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in fishermen (eefhimnrs).

Definitions for fishermen

noun

  1. a person who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  2. a ship used in fishing.
  3. a person who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  4. a ship used in fishing.

adjective

  1. Also, fisherman's. of, relating to, or designating a knitting pattern consisting primarily of cable-stitches executed in a characteristically thick, traditionally off-white yarn, or a garment made in this pattern and yarn:
  2. Also, fisherman's. of, relating to, or designating a knitting pattern consisting primarily of cable-stitches executed in a characteristically thick, traditionally off-white yarn, or a garment made in this pattern and yarn:

Origin of fishermen

1400-50; late Middle English fissherman; see fisher, -man

Examples for fishermen

Gemma Hardy is the orphaned daughter of a Scottish woman and an Icelandic fisherman.

This fisherman, I am glad to tell you, was an exceedingly humane and upright man.

Bald and laconic, it starts out from the image of the fisherman harvesting the river for food.

I was not long in making a bargain with a fisherman to aid in catching shad.

The fisherman had indeed seen Lambert's boat, which was well known.

He worked unstable jobs as a fisherman and a construction worker before he entered the piracy business.

A fisherman's boy in a boat rowed slowly along by their side.

This fall, its rocket fire on Israel appears to have won greater freedom of movement for Gazan farmers and fisherman.

My pride was touched, and I agreed to go, leaving my fisherman in the lurch.

Find a fisherman to take you out on the water at dusk to watch the natural pyrotechnics at their bellowing best.

The 'Nixa' along the Baltic coast was once, however, much feared by the fishermen.

The fishermen walked in the direction of the town, and disappeared.

The blow had driven in the fishermen, and we thought it wise to be governed by their experience.

The New Englanders were mainly farmers, hunters, and fishermen.

Officials also had received reports of loud bangs—called in by fishermen—and an oil slick.

In vain, fishermen waited for the sea to come back: there were no fish, there was no money for their families.

The fishermen, like thieves, shake out their silver,/ the lithe knives wriggle on the drying sand.

As we drew closer, the fishermen became more intent on posing for our pictures than fishing.

Mr. COLE explained that it would be an enormous thing for fishermen.

“Last year fishermen were real fishermen, now they are just for show, for tourists in the lake,” Yin says.

Word Value for fishermen
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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