What does fishing boat mean?

Definition

A boat that people use to catch fish for a living, with nets, a winch and a boom.

Example sentences

• We paid a fisherman to take us out in his fishing boat and fished all morning without a single bite.🔊

  We paid a fisherman to take us out in his fishing boat and fished all morning without a single bite.

• By the time we got to the harbour, the trawlers had already set sail — they leave at four in the morning.🔊

  By the time we got to the harbour, the trawlers had already set sail — they leave at four in the morning.

• Twenty minutes on my uncle's trawler and I was already getting seasick: it's the diesel mixed with the smell of fish.🔊

  Twenty minutes on my uncle's trawler and I was already getting seasick: it's the diesel mixed with the smell of fish.

Related words

fishing boat in other languages

• In Portuguese
• In French
• In Japanese