Some kind of fishing-boat.

A small fishing boat. Obsolete. rare.

A kind of fishing-boat, placed at anchor at the mouth of a river.

A sturdy two-masted fishing vessel with bluff bows (bluff, adj. 1a), resembling a ketch, formerly used for deep sea fishing in the North Sea. Now…

A type of fishing boat.

A sea fishing-boat with a flat bottom, square stern, and rudder extending 4 or 5 feet below the bottom, rowed with three pairs of oars, and…

On the Thames and the coasts around its estuary: a heavy clinker-built fishing boat, decked forward and aft and ranging from about twelve to…

A kind of fishing vessel.

Some kind of fishing-boat used in the 16th cent. on the Thames.

A large sea-fishing boat.

A small open fishing-boat with sails.

A fishing boat used in Shetland, a buss. Obsolete.

A kind of Spanish fishing-boat.

A small fishing-vessel. (Dutch kaag.) Obsolete.

A small kind of fishing-boat.

‘A large Spanish fishing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts‥common in the Mediterranean.’ Falconer Dict. Marine 1789.

A relatively small, broad-bodied, decked boat with a narrow transom, leeboards, and a two-masted spritsail rig, used until the late 19th cent. for…

A one-masted fishing smack on the Irish coast and south-west of England, similar to a hoy in build. Also attributive.

A small sailing boat chiefly used for fishing, with a large well in the centre for transporting fish alive, movable planks or boards for covering…

A small sailing vessel, usually having a narrow, pointed stern; = pink, n.2 a.

A small fishing boat which can be either rowed or sailed, having a single mast with a dipping lug sail. Cf. hooker, n.2 2.

(See quots.)

Nautical. A small vessel of the smack type furnished with a ‘jigger’ sail: see 2b; a similar vessel used as a fishing-vessel on the N.E. coast of…

U.S. A kind of fishing boat used on the Great Lakes (see quots.). Obsolete.

A light boat, skiff. Also attributive in scaffy boat. Chiefly Scottish. Now Historical.

= sense 5c.

In technical applications: something which combines aspects of two different sources. English regional (northern). A boat combining the…

A kind of fishing-boat formerly used in Scotland. Obsolete exc. Historical.

A type of Nova Scotian fishing boat.

A small fishing smack.

U.S. A kind of sailing-boat (see quot. 1976). Also attributive.

One who is engaged in ‘fleeting’ (see fleeting, n.3). Also, a boat intended for ‘fleeting’.

(see quots.).

Canadian (originally and chiefly Newfoundland). A small fishing boat, typically round-bottomed with a square stern; a small punt. Now chiefly histo…

U.S. regional (North Carolina). Usually with hyphen. A large triangular sail used on certain fishing boats; = leg-of-mutton sail at leg of mutton…

A small single-masted sailing boat of a type used esp. for fishing in the Irish Sea. Cf. nabbie, n.

A two-masted Breton fishing-boat.

(a) a person who engages in sportfishing; (b) a seagoing boat equipped for sportfishing.

(a) = sport fisherman n. (a); (b) = sport fisherman n. (b).

(a) South African a raftlike boat with two outboard motors used esp. for offshore fishing; (b) a small powerboat used for towing water-skiers.

A small, light, inflatable watercraft in which a person sits with his or her legs in the water, typically used for fishing in areas of still water…