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  • noun Plural form of pearler.

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Examples

  • For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin 'the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.

    The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

  • There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin 'the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.

    The Men of Forty Mile 2010

  • There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and South Sea adventurers foregathered.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • There is nothing I'd like more than hearing pearlers like these from Dave, where he says blogging ISN'T a conversation.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • After 1850, the Shark Bay region was variously occupied by guano miners, pearlers, fishermen and pastoralists.

    Shark Bay, Australia 2008

  • There is nothing I'd like more than hearing pearlers like these from Dave, where he says blogging ISN'T a conversation.

    The Dave Winer Fury Down Under Tour Ben Barren 2006

  • Take for example the two pearlers I received yesterday.

    The Odd Questions RICHARD 2006

  • One verse tells of inland Aboriginals from the Gascoyne, who became strangers in their own land when they were captured by pearlers to work on the luggers.

    Strangers on the Shore 2000

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