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cast-netter en · NOUN

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1. One who cast-nets.
   • To use odunka, the 6-m radius (yes, radius) cast net for Ethmalosa, requires a narrow, more manœuverable canoe than ali, carrying one cast-netter standing in the bow and a crew of 4–5 paddlers astern. 2006, Alan Longhurst, Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries, page 125:
   • On fall mornings before sunrise, cast netters on Mobile Bay's eastern shore piers often are rewarded with good catches of white shrimp. 1982, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service (contributor), Alabama Coastal Region Ecological Characterization: A Socioeconomic Study, page 103:
   • The cast netter's shoes crunch on the shell wash, and when his net connects with the water, there is the sound of plopping and splash. 2015, Susan Cerulean, Coming to Pass, Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change, page 147:

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