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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A fishing vessel employing nets that hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together as in a purse so as to enclose the fish. The vessel is equipped with pursing gallows and pursing winches for hauling in the purse lines which close the net after settling. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
"PURSE SEINER" is a common misspelling or typo for: purse seine. |
Crosswords: PURSE SEINER |
| Specialty definitions using "PURSE SEINER": SKIFF OPERATOR. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | French tuna purse seiner F/V KERGUELEN at Mahe, Seychelles. Note helicopter on flying bridge. It is used to visually search for schools of tuna. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The Spanish tuna purse seiner F/V TXORI-EDER in the western Indian Ocean. Smaller vessel on the stern is secured to purse seine and when a school of tuna is encountered, the small boat is launched and it helps ship encircle it. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Stern view of a purse seiner. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The net is now closing in a nearly perfect circle. The purse seiner is now starting to pull the net back on board. The workboat is seen to the left and is secured to the ship. It is now acting like a tugboat and is pulling the purse seiner away from the net so that it does not become entangled. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Decomposing fish in the hold of a purse seiner. Fish decompose as a result of lack of refrigeration. Although this material is unfit for human consumption, it is used as a base for fishmeal for animal feed. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Nature's bounty - a catch of salmon by a purse seiner. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Fishing gear in the Southeast Pacific Ocean from left to right: a Chilean purse seiner; a tuna purse seiner in tropical waters of the northern part of Area 87; a Peruvian purse seiner; a trawler; and a small purse seiner. Credit: Fisheries. |  | High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploit ed by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seiner fishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrh enian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating in the Mediterranean. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Menhaden fishing - mother vessel and purse seiner boats. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Alaskan purse seiner lifting a catch of herring to the deck. Credit: Fisheries. |
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Expression using "PURSE SEINER": tuna purse seiner. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
purse seiner | 5 |
purse seiner tuna | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: reserpines. | |
-2 letters: nurseries, prerinses, reinsures, reserpine. | |
-3 letters: eeriness, ensurers, enureses, enuresis, erepsins, eserines, insurers, nereises, penuries, perusers, preeners, prerinse, pressrun, pressure, priseres, pureness, reinsure, reissuer, repiners, reprises, respires, resupine, ripeners, ripeness, sneerers, spurners, spurries, surprise, uprisers. | |
-4 letters: ensurer, ensures, erepsin, eserine, insurer, insures, nursers, peeress, peeries, penises, pensees, perries, peruser, peruses, preener, presser, prisere. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: superheroines. | |
+3 letters: superenciphers. | |
+4 letters: supernumeraries. | |
+5 letters: precariousnesses, protrusivenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 55 52 53 45 53 45 49 4E 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101 00100000 01010011 01000101 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P U R S E   S E I N E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0055 0052 0053 0045 0053 0045 0049 004E 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50555253392533943483952 |
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