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prawn

Any of various shrimps of the suborder Natantia (‘swimming’), of the crustacean order Decapoda, as contrasted with lobsters and crayfishes, which are able to ‘walk’. Species called prawns are generally larger than species called shrimps.
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Then you get the 'sniggerers', who go down to a well-stocked salmon pool armed with large weighted treble hooks to rip fish out; snarers, who use rabbit snares on poles to tail them out; and gangs of prawners, who descend on fly-only stretches and wheech them out.
Fishing: Poaching blitz by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Annual Nobby Race: More than 20 Morecombe Bay Prawners, some adtign back to 1894 from 11.
A FEW OF THE HIGHLIGHTS by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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