Well-boat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwɛlbəʊt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Well-boat is a noun meaning (nautical) A fishing vessel designed to carry live fish in a tank or well.
Meaning
(nautical) A fishing vessel designed to carry live fish in a tank or well.
Example Sentences
When taken, the crabs are kept alive in well[-]boats, until wanted.
In our way we overtook a great Jonk that came from Palimbam, a Town on the Iſland Sumatra: [...] This Veſſel was of the Chineſe make, full of little Rooms or Partitions like our Well-boats, [...]
And the rivers are moſt of them very full of fiſh, eſpecially in the back country, to which parties are made in boats with nets; in which excurſions ſhooting is joined: the fiſh they take are brought home alive in well-boats, and put into their ſtores: [...]
They [the "Hollanders", that is, Dutch] have One Hundred Dogger-Boats, of One Hundred and Fifty Tuns a piece, or thereabouts: Seaven Hundred Pincks and Well-Boats, from Sixty to One Hundred Tuns a piece; which altogether fiſh upon the Coaſts of England and Scotland, for Cod and Ling only; [...]
Word Forms
- well-boats
- wellboat
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wellboat, livewell, baitwell, fisher-boat, fisherboat, fishboat.
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