Sentence examples for a dragger from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, January 4 , 1947P. 32 Profile of Ellery Franklin Thompson, a dragger captain of Stonington, Connecticut.

Learn to bait a trap, work on a duck decoy, try on clamming shoes and repair a dragger net used by Long Island fishermen and baymen.

By Joseph Mitchell The New Yorker, January 4 , 1947P. 32 Profile of Ellery Franklin Thompson, a dragger captain of Stonington, Connecticut.

In September, a 24-year-old Montauk commercial fisherman named Donald Alversa was killed on a fishing trip on a dragger off the coast of North Carolina.

Learn to bait a trap, use woodworking tools to work on a duck decoy, try on clamming shoes and repair a dragger net used by Long Island fishermen and bay men.

He found work on a dragger and then on a lobster boat, and then, in 2006, he bought the Anna Mary with Sosinski, his best friend since grade school.

Whenever I see monkfish on a restaurant menu today - it is sometimes referred to by its French name, lotte, or its English monikers, lobster fish or angler fish - I think back to a fishing trip I took with a commercial dragger eight years ago off eastern Connecticut.

No sooner do I present a draft idea at a local seafood forum than I get shouted down by a New England dragger captain whose cod doesn't fill the bill.

And unless the plane is a "tail dragger," the soft gravel will make it land nose first into the ground.

On one key issue after another, from the Middle East to North Korea to the Department of Homeland Security, Bush has proven himself to be a dawdler, a foot-dragger who can't make fundamental choices or press his team to follow his commands.

You don't have to be a knuckle-dragger to find a place in jiu-jitsu, although the sport certainly has that demographic covered.