[f. TURTLE sb.2 + -ER1.]
1. A person, or a vessel, engaged in turtling; a turtle-catcher.
1697. Dampier, Voy. (1729), I. 395. The Jamaica Turtlers have such [nets].
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. p. lvi. The Turtlers who furnish the island with Turtle, may be reckoned among the trading ships.
1831. Jane Porter, Sir E. Seaward’s Narr., II. 91. The turtlers returned with twenty-six.
1898. Blackw. Mag., July, 62/2. He had made acquaintance … with Florida wreckers, Tortuga turtlers, and Labrador eggers.
2. A seller of turtle.
1740. New Hist. Jamaica, vii. 180. No Butcher or Turtler shall sell any Meat or Turtle by Retail.
