Scottish. A short flat-bottomed rowing-boat used in salmon-fishing and for crossing rivers or lakes. [In south Scotl. often pronounced cowble/ˈkobl/.]
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > other types of rowing boat (20) coblec950 Scottish. A short flat-bottomed rowing-boat used in salmon-fishing and for crossing rivers or lakes. [In south Scotl. often pronounced cowble/ˈkobl/.] row barge1466 A barge propelled by oars or sweeps (sweep, n. 28). bark1477 A small ship; in earlier times, a general term for all sailing vessels of small size, e.g. fishing-smacks, xebecs, pinnaces; in modern use… rowing barge1548 With the sense ‘propelled by oars’, as rowing barge, rowing shallop, rowing ship, etc. See also rowing boat, n. galley1570 A large open row-boat, e.g. one appropriated to the captain of a man-of-war, one formerly used on the Thames by custom-house officers, and by the… caïque1625 A light boat or skiff propelled by one or more rowers, much used on the Bosporus. catur1653 ‘A light rowing vessel used on the coast of Malabar in the early days of the Portuguese’ (Yule); according to Jal, a vessel 60 to 65 feet long… dory1726 A small flat-bottomed rowing boat with a raised bow and stern, originally used for fishing in New England and Atlantic Canada. skiff1793 spec. A kind of clinker-built sculling- or pleasure-boat (see quot. 1886). Also, a long narrow racing-boat for one oarsman, outrigged, usually… dinghy1810 A sailing boat used on the coast of western India. Later also: a smaller boat (sometimes a rowing boat rather than a sailing boat) used on the rivers… panga1811 Any of various boats of Central and northern South America, chiefly used for fishing; spec. a flat-bottomed Mexican boat with a rising bow, now… dinghy1818 In extended use, applied to similar vessels used elsewhere. A small rowing boat or (later also) a similar vessel propelled by other means… randan1838 A boat rowed in this style. Also randan boat, etc. dragon boat1846 A traditional type of Chinese rowing boat used in racing at an annual festival (see note), typically approx. 40 feet (12.2 metres) in length, made of… guinea-boat1867 (see quot.). drive boat1879 a small rowing boat used in menhaden fishing to drive the fish into a net towed by a larger boat. pea pod1884 North American. A kind of small, open, double-ended rowing boat, of a type used esp. in lobster fishing. in-rigger1893 A boat having the rowlocks formed in the gunwale. pointer1901 Canadian. A rowing boat, pointed at both ends and having a shallow draught, used by loggers. sandolo1928 A flat-bottomed rowing-boat of the kind used in the waterways of Venice. |
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