fisherette

plural fisherettes

1. datedA female fisher (one who catches fish).

   If you are a fisherman or a “fisherette” you may write to one of the advertisers in The New Department for a fly-book.

   1913, Hearst’s Magazine, page 677

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   Introducing the Fisherette / A NEW EXPERIMENT IN WAR WORK FOR WOMEN—PLUCKY NOVA SCOTIANS TAKE TO FISH CLEANING IN OIL-SKINS AND SOU’WESTERS[…]And here is where the fisherette comes in! If women can help on the farms, in the factories, in industries of every kind, they are surely fitted to take their places by the fishermen, and if they cannot go out in dories to catch the precious sea food, they can at least have a share in handling it on shore.

   1918 July 20, The Brantford Daily Expositor, Brantford, Ont., page nine

   James E. Goodban, local authority on deep sea fishing, was invited by Mr. Van Dorin to join the party and under his and Mr. Van Dorin’s directions, the visiting fishermen—and fisherettes — were successful in landing a fine catch of albacore.

   1938 September 23, The Upland News, volume XLIV, number 43, Upland, Calif.

   But, somehow, I felt a bit self-conscious, embarrassed almost as though I had caught some young angler kissing a fisherette.

   1942, O[nnie] Warren Smith, Musings of an Angler, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes & Company, page 96

   ARNOLD KENT and MARINA GOYA, interpretative dancers are respectively a stowaway and a sailorette on a sailboat which, strangely enough, is manned by young, romantic gals. To the strains of a romantic tune, the sailorettes go thru the undulating body motions of a hula. The title: Fisherettes Catch.

   1943 February 27, The Billboard, page 104

   A fisherette from Berry, Miss Mildred Cannon, helped Wiley Cannon, also of Berry, and J. W. Fulmer, of Bankston, bring in a string of 41 bream and bass.

   1950, Alabama Conservation, page 16