bultow
(ˈbʊltəʊ)
[Mahn says ‘f. bull large, and tow’; but the word looks like an alteration of bulter, bultey, under the influence of ‘popular etymology’. (Du. bulletouw, ‘a name applied to several ropes about a ship’, has also been suggested.)]
(See quots.)
| 1858 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Dict., Bultow, a mode of fishing practised in the [Newfoundland] Bank fisheries by stringing a number of hooks on one line. 1883 Standard 13 Sept. 5/4 The ‘bultow’ is..a set line, called in some places a ‘trawl line’. |