Definitions for seiners

seiners sein·er

Spelling: [sey-ner]
IPA: /ˈseɪ nər/

Seiners is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in seiners (eeinrss).

Definitions for seiners

noun

  1. a person who fishes with a seine.
  2. a boat used in fishing with a seine.

Origin of seiners

First recorded in 1595-1605; seine + -er1

Examples for seiners

The gill-netters hung on the seiner's heels, because where the purse seine could get a haul so could they.

Under cover of the night the fishermen took pattern from the seiner's example.

Generally a day in harbor is a day of loafing for the crew of a seiner; but it was not so altogether with us that day.

Ob je einer einen Prediger in seiner Herberg fur sich predigen liess.

When the circle is complete the two ends of the net meet at the seiner's stern.

The crews were busy with picaroons forking salmon out of the seiner into the tender's hold.

Not all were loafers exactly––three or four were simply waiting around before shipping on some seiner for the mackerel season.

Every man watching knew what the seiner was about, in defiance of the law.

seiner trusted belladonna more than any other remedy; so also Rilliet and Barthez.

And of course, too, no seiner could ever resist anybody who talks to him in a nice friendly way like that.

Word Value for seiners
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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