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chebacco

chebacco noun: a (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.

chebacco: a (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries
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Noun

chebacco (plural chebaccos)

  1. A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
    • On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.1830, Silas Pinckney Holbrook, Sketches, by a Traveller
    Synonyms:
    pink stern

Synonyms of chebacco

Forms of chebacco

pluralchebaccos

Origin of chebacco

From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.

Questions about chebacco

What does chebacco mean?
Chebacco means a (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
What part of speech is chebacco?
Chebacco is a noun.
What is the plural of chebacco?
The plural of chebacco is chebaccos.

Words near chebacco in the dictionary

  1. Cheatums
  2. Cheatwood
  3. Cheatwoods
  4. cheaty
  5. cheb
  6. chebacco
  7. chebaccos
  8. chebang
  9. chebangs
  10. Chebanse
  11. chebble

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