seine n
2 Comb ~ crew: the number of men required to procure fish with a seine; CREW n 1, ~ gallows, ~ skiff.
[1937] 1945 SCAMMELL 37 "Payne's Cove Bait Skiff": Hurry up, Uncle John, you don't want a coat,/The rest of the seine-crew are down in the boat. 1987 KING (ed) 119 "The Black Rock": Out of fog/the seamen form,/eyes already in the sheets/and driving hard/by the Seine-Gallows,/rounding Tuck's Point/for the Channel. 1986 FELTHAM 50 The seine skiff was later used as a trap boat with little if any modification, and eventually became the motor boat.
