bowpicker
/ˈbaʊˌpɪkə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The usual Columbia River bowpicker is about twenty feet long, very high in the bow and stern to weather the waves of the Columbia Bar, and practically unsinkable."
- "It was a thirty-two foot bowpicker with a bare, stainless-stell reel in the bow and a square, squatty cabin that filled up the stern."
- "The experience with bowpickers in Cordova demonstrated that without additional innovation, towing a buoy over the gear aft of the entry point of the groundline to the water was impractical and potentially unsafe."