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Definition of Pearler
1. Noun. A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls.
Generic synonyms: Diver, Frogman, Underwater Diver
Derivative terms: Pearl
Definition of Pearler
1. Noun. A pearl diver. ¹
2. Noun. A boat used in pearl fishing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pearler
1. one that dives for pearls [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearler
Literary usage of Pearler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma by Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor (1904)
"The weary pearler sails away to another boat. Then the diver recovers, ...
When it is found .again, and the pearler comes on board, he finds laid out for ..."
2. Taming New Guinea: Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton (1921)
"Diver after diver descended and toiled, diver after diver ascended and reported
a soft mud bottom and a hopeless quest; pearler after pearler lifted his ..."
3. Australind; Wanderings in Western Australia and the Malay East by Henry Taunton (1903)
"enough to pay for food; but it was a bad season indeed when the pearler could
not wind up the cruise with a balance on the right side. ..."
4. Australind: Wanderings in Western Australia and the Malay East by Henry Taunton (1903)
"... but it was a bad season indeed when the pearler could not wind up the cruise
with a balance on the right side. A poor man could generally get advances ..."
5. The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Henri Louis Grin (1899)
"Although I describe him as a Dutch pearler I am somewhat uncertain as to his
exact nationality. I am under the impression that he told me he came from ..."
6. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1920)
"He had been pearler, wrecker, trader, whaler, too, I believe; in his own
words—anything and everything a man may be at sea, but a pirate. ..."
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