What's the difference between fisherman and fisherwoman?
Fisherman
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to catch fish.
(n.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.
Example Sentences:
(1) I started as a professional fisherman at 14, going up the coast from Vancouver for two months in summer, working 20-hour days with my father.
(2) The first thing she made me was an octopus, which I used in a picture of a fisherman.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A local fisherman working for a company contracted by Samarco mine operator clears up dead fish found on the beach of Povoacao village.
(4) Cantwell, the son of a fisherman father and a house-cleaner mother, said he often thinks he presides over a town comprising two very different worlds living just minutes apart.
(5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(6) Yoshiyuki Kumagai, fisherman from Ofunato There was a time after the disaster when fisherman Yoshiyuki Kumagai could not bring himself to look at the port.
(7) A pure growth of Branhamella catarrhalis was obtained from subpleural abscesses in a 65-year-old fisherman with a persistent pneumothorax; underlying disorders included lung fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes mellitus.
(8) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
(9) "You have to support them that are trying to pick up their trades, even if you just caught three sole and can't afford a curry," said Rob, a fisherman collecting a takeaway.
(10) "We're happy with it, of course," the fisherman said, standing outside his house on the mud flats of the Indus delta.
(11) His daughter Eliza has also worked political messages into songs of her own, such as You Know Me , about the plight of refugees, and Fisherman, about the Occupy movement.
(12) Certificates showing the occupation on fisherman (or similar term) or lumper were extracted.
(13) A former commercial fisherman, Odom said the “geological marvel” of Georgia’s coastline – it has 15 barrier islands and large expanses of untouched marshlands – would be in severe danger from any oil spill.
(14) A fisherman has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £50,000 after he was caught dredging for scallops in a conservation area protected because it is a precious habitat for marine animals including dolphins.
(15) Pope Kiril I in The Shoes of the Fisherman is succeeded by Gregory XVII in The Clowns of God , who gives way to Leo XIV in Lazarus (1990).
(16) This little town in the far south of Mexico’s Baja California is basically a community of fisherman families who realised they were over-fishing their own backyard and created a marine protected area.
(17) "A fisherman accused Paul of trying to kill him, although it is evident that Paul did not and that evidence is on film.
(18) These food-borne parasitic zoonoses are important public health problems; they are of concern for the live stock and food industry and for farmers and fisherman.
(19) Computing exposure via ingestion for the average fisherman indicated that if one were to consume robalo throughout the year one would be exposed in excess of the EPA Reference Dose (RfD) for mercury.
(20) But I've been a fisherman for 48 years and I'm not going to give up now."
Fisherwoman
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The boats are destroying our fishing areas,” says one wrinkled fisherwoman selling plastic bags of crayfish.
(2) Edinilda de Ponto dos Carvalhos, who is in her early fifties, has been a marisqueira , or shellfish fisherwoman, in Suape since she was young.