troller

Example Sentences

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He’s helped her fix up her 38-foot wooden power troller, F/V Grace, and over the years taught her how to listen to nature.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2023

She soon fell in love, married and moved aboard his 41-foot salmon troller, the MoreKelp, which she later described as “the single most uncomfortable fishing boat in British Columbia.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2019

She bought her first boat at 19, a 1928-vintage troller she acquired for $4,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2018

Although the archetypical emblem of an online troll is of a grinning bogeyman, the word can be traced back to the Old French verb troller, meaning to wander around while hunting.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

They went to Irvington on Tuesday morning, August 27, 1895, aboard an electric trolley, a new kind of streetcar that drew its power through a wheeled conducting apparatus on the roof called a troller.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson