purse-seine

English

Verb

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

1. To fish using a purse seine.
   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 228:

     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.