"She has a great net like a big night-cap stretched over on a spar, which we call a trawl-beam, and this is lowered down, and as the boat sails it is dragged along the bottom, and catches soles, and turbot, and plaice and sometimes john-dory, and Gurnet, and brill.
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn
"So they have, sir; but you see here, I catches and kills a conger, or a pollack, or a Gurnet, or a bass.
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn
Then the yards were braced, and all sails set to the west-wind, Blowing steady and strong; and the Mayflower sailed from the harbor, Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and leaving far to the southward Island and cape of sand, and the Field of the First Encounter, Took the wind on her quarter, and stood for the open Atlantic, Borne on the send of the sea, and the swelling hearts of the Pilgrims.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow