s.w. dial. Also volyer. [dial. var. of FOLLOWER: cf. VOLLER.] (See quot. 1855.)
1855. Househ. Wds., 23 Sept., 130/1. [In pilchard fishing] there is a second or assisting boat, called the volyer, which carries another net, called the tuck-seine.
a. 1870. J. Couch, Hist. Polperro, vi. (1871), 106. A second boat, the volyer,… has another sean-net of a hundred or more fathoms in length, and eighteen in depth.
