DCHP-3

tail-buoy

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

one of the floats attached to the far end of a herring net.

Quotations

1954
There in the shadowed calm before sunrise men leaned across the gunnels of flats, grasped the tail-buoys of herring nets. . . .