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drifter

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

drifter, a type of fishing vessel, originally fitted with sails but today fitted with an engine or engines. It uses a drift net which is shot by the drifter, which then lies at the leeward end of the net, drifting with it, until is time to haul the net in.

Drifters are essentially fishing boats which operate in home waters, and are found mainly in the North Sea and around the coasts of Scotland and Ireland, but they are also common in other parts of the world.

See also fisheries.

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drifter

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

drift·er / ˈdriftər/ • n. 1. a person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job. 2. a fishing boat equipped with a drift net.

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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

drifter See PERCUSSION BORING.

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drifter

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

drifter •bitter, committer, critter, embitter, emitter, fitter, flitter, fritter, glitter, gritter, hitter, jitter, knitter, litter, permitter, pitta, quitter, remitter, sitter, skitter, slitter, spitter, splitter, submitter, titter, transmitter, twitter, witter •drifter, grifter, lifter, shifter, sifter, snifter, uplifter •constrictor, contradictor, depicter, dicta, evictor, inflicter, predictor, victor •filter, kilter, philtre (US philter), quilter, tilter •Jacinta, midwinter, Minter, Pinta, Pinter, printer, splinter, sprinter, tinter, winter •sphincter •assister, ballista, bistre (US bister), blister, enlister, glister, lister, mister, resistor, Sandinista, sister, transistor, tryster, twister, vista •trickster •minster, spinster •hipster, quipster, tipster •cohabiter • arbiter • presbyter •exhibitor, inhibitor, prohibiter •Manchester • Chichester • Silchester •Rochester • Colchester •creditor, editor, subeditor •auditor • Perdita • taffeta • shopfitter •forfeiter • outfitter • counterfeiter •register • marketer •cricketer, picketer •Alistair • weightlifter • filleter •fillister • shoplifter •diameter, heptameter, hexameter, parameter, pentameter, tetrameter •Axminster • Westminster •limiter, perimeter, scimitar, velocimeter •accelerometer, anemometer, barometer, gasometer, geometer, manometer, micrometer, milometer, olfactometer, optometer, pedometer, photometer, pyrometer, speedometer, swingometer, tachometer, thermometer •Kidderminster • janitor •banister, canister •primogenitor, progenitor, senator •administer, maladminister, minister, sinister •monitor • per capita • carpenter •spanakopita • Jupiter • trumpeter •character • barrister • ferreter •teleprinter •chorister, forester •interpreter, misinterpreter •capacitor • ancestor • Exeter •stepsister •elicitor, solicitor •babysitter • house-sitter • bullshitter •competitor • catheter • harvester •riveter • banqueter • non sequitur •loquitur •inquisitor, visitor •compositor, expositor

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