| Summary: | douser A "doucer" was a twelve or fourteen inch bolt of iron with four iron rings fastened through the bolt at three or four inch intervals. When four or five "doucers" were lowered overboard and pulled up and down by a line or were allowed to strike the ocean floor, they produced a loud noise which drove the cod into the "bunt" or the loose bag of netting of the seine. The "bunt" could be closed and the seine with the catch taken on board by the aid of ropes known as "tuckin' lines". DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN OCT 1971 JH OCT 1971 Used I Used I Used I [see 'trouncer'] DOUSE v., DASHER, THRASHER, TROUNCER Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 26 Jul 2016
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