purse-seine

verb

To fish using a purse seine.

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Meanings

verbpurse-seine (third-person singular simple present purse-seines, present participle purse-seining, simple past and past participle purse-seined)

present singular third person purse-seines · participle present purse-seining · participle past purse-seined · past purse-seined

  1. To fish using a purse seine.

    Like many Gloucester fishermen in the late twentieth century, the Sanfilippos are from Sicily, where catches were meager and boats small. John, born in 1945, […] began in a little dory with his father. They gillnetted, longlined, jigged, purse seined, and survived in the postwar years of poverty.

    1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228
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APA

purse-seine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/purse-seine

MLA

“purse-seine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/purse-seine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “purse-seine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/purse-seine.

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