Fishing-smack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fishing-smack is a noun meaning A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
Meaning
A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
Example Sentences
ON a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.
The farmer on Udröst owns his fishing-smack just like any other farmer in the north; sometimes the fishermen see it under full sails, and steering right down upon them, but just as they expect to be run down, it disappears.
Word Forms
- fishing-smacks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include smack, smacksman, sportfisherman, shack, fisherman, fishpot.
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