Definition of "fisherman"

A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:

1. Any person who attempts to catch fish.  quotations  examples

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   • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

     1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

2. A person whose profession is catching fish.  quotations  examples

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   • I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.

     1663, Edward Waterhous [i.e., Edward Waterhouse], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], page 38

A vessel (boat or ship) used for fishing.  quotations  examples