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buy boats

buy boats is the plural of buy boat.

Meaning of buy boat

Noun

buy boat (plural buy boats)

  1. A boat used to buy the catch from fishing boats while they are at sea and then sell it at a market.
    • When the captain is buying crabs on his own responsibility and selling them where he chooses it is styled a “buy boat.”1919, Edward Perry Churchill, Crab Industry of Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 19

Questions about buy boats

What is buy boats the plural of?
Buy boats is the plural of buy boat.

Words near buy boats in the dictionary

  1. buy and hold
  2. buy and pay for
  3. buy back
  4. buy backs
  5. buy boat
  6. buy boats
  7. buy cheap, buy twice
  8. buy down
  9. buy high, sell higher
  10. buy in
  11. buy into

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