shallowayn.
/ˈʃaləʊweɪ/ Canadian. Obsolete exc. Historical.
A small coastal sailing craft.
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1676 in D. W. Prowse Hist. Newfoundland (1895) viii. 206 No Indians come [to Placentia] but some Canida Indians from forts of Canida in french shallowayes.
1774 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) II. 14 Hooper's shalloway having sprung her foremast,..I sent the boat-builder to make her a new one.
1971 E. R. Seary Place Names Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland v. 86 The fishing boats in the cod and seal fishery were formerly called shallops and shalloways... The shalloways were open boats, what are now called punts.
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