Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mode of fishing for cod, by stringing a number of hooks on one line, practised on the Newfoundland banks.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
Examples
“For the capture of the cod, both in Newfoundland and in the North Sea, what is called the bultow is used.”
“The bultow is “shot” across the tide to prevent entanglement of the hooks, and is laid in the afternoon.”
“The bultow is "shot" across the tide to prevent entanglement of the hooks, and is laid in the afternoon.”
“The cod are taken by the hook-and-line, the seine, the cod-net or gill-net, the cod-trap and the bultow; Brazil and Spain are the largest customers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bultow’.
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Here Fishy Fishy!
A broad list of words and phrases describing schemes and devices, from ancient to modern, that humans have devised to catch or harvest our underwater friends.
hook, line and si..., hook, line, sinker, pole, rod, bobber, artificial bait, natural bait, fly rod, spinner, plug and 76 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 364 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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The DEADLIEST Catch
All the words I keep hearing now that Season 4 has launched. WOOOO!!
Edit: Amended list to include other fishing terms (not necessarily crab-fishing, not necessarily heard on Deadliest...bering sea, launch, pot, bait, icy, dutch harbor, processing, greenhorn, coast guard, survival suit, opilio, king crab and 65 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "The French outfitted their Terre-Neuve fleets with longlines, otherwise known as trawl lines, setlines, or bultows. Until then, the principal technique for cod fishing throughout the North Atlantic had been handlining.... Records show the British sic used longlines off of Iceland in 1482, and they may have been used earlier...."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 118 Jul 16, 2009