Read full poem →Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again?
Ye ignorant and idle fishermen!
Hence to your huts, and boats, and inland native shore,
Dictionary Entry
A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
Origin
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Common Phrases
. fishermenfishermen localfishermen commercial
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Poetry examples for “fishermen”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The iron bridge's reticules
Are seen by fishermen from the Damascened lagoons.
But from the bridge, watching the little steamer
Read full poem →and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,
I have seen them with untidy families,
Read full poem →the coasts to prevent their escape; and when King James was taken at
Feversham, the fishermen, by whom he was seized, were employed in what
they called by the cant phrase of "priest-codding," that is, lying in