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Definition of Shrimpers
1. shrimper [n] - See also: shrimper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrimpers
Literary usage of Shrimpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Deep-sea Fishing and Fishing Boats: An Account of the Practical Working of by Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth (1874)
"... and sailing carriers — Barking formerly an important station — Leigh shrimpers —
Description of shrimp- net— Oyster dredging and stow-boating. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"shrimpers had depended for custom. The pic-nio party, being rather afraid of the
weather, take no notice of the shrimpers, who stand disconsolate. ..."
3. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"In many cases the shrimpers cast these fry into the sea again ; but I believe
the young round fish never survive the process; and in most cases the sifting ..."
4. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"675 shrimpers. 1075 Real flowers. 614 The Field of the Cloth of Gold: '"Twixt
... 1495 Boulogne shrimpers. 1620 Haymaking. 1378 Germinal Purchased for the ..."
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