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Seabright|ˈsiːbraɪt|
Also with lower-case initial.
The name of a small town on the coast of New Jersey, used attrib. and absol. to designate a variety of flat-keeled fishing-boat from the region, esp. adapted for landing on beaches in heavy seas.
1911Rudder XXV. 83 (caption) Jersey Coast fishermen getting one of their power Seabright skiffs off and on the beach. 1930G. Pinchot To South Seas i. 7 The bronze and mahogany launch was replaced by a Seabright dory twenty-two feet long by seven feet wide. Ibid. xii. 237 In the Seabright again I put it on the floor. 1971P. J. Guthorn Sea Bright Skiff v. 74 The Sea Bright skiff rum boats were progressively, but never completely, replaced by boats of V-bottom design. |