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sixern Shetland.|ˈsɪksən|
Also sexern, sixareen, sixereen, etc.
[repr. ON. sexæringr (Norw. seksæring, seksring), f. sex six + ár oar.]
A six-oared boat.
1866T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetl. 103 Sixareen, a six-oared Norway skiff. 1881Standard 9 Aug. 6/3 The ‘Sixern’..will not on the average exceed 19 ft. in length by about 5 ft. or 6 ft. in breadth and 4 ft. in depth. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 46 Model of a ‘Sixern’, ‘Sixareen’, or six-oared yawl. 1906H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail 114 note, Very few ‘sexerns’ are now being built. |