Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gutter and salter of herrings; a person engaged in the business of catching herring and preparing them for the market.

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Examples

  • It was an old fellow named Tom Bates who had called him -- father to that Fred arrested for the murder of his wife -- a Yarmouth fisher and herring-curer.

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

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