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[< hurdy-gurdy]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a hand- or machine-operated winch that winds fishing line on a drum as fish are hauled in.
See: hauler-head
Quotations
1936
"Yah," he replied, looking up at us. "I bane making some gurdies. Sometimes when I catch salmon he get tangled in other lines so I make gurdies to stop too much jerking, and make fish more steady to haul lines in."
1955
But as halibut were tougher fish to pull in than are cod and haddock the hand-winch, known as the "gurdy", affixed across the bow of the dory was frequently employed to haul up the line and fish.
1959
As an electric "gurdy" hauled in the line, the fish, weighing five to fifty lbs., were gaffed at the rail's edge, gutted, flipped in the hold.