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fishing-smack

fishing-smack noun: a type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.

Noun

fishing-smack (plural fishing-smacks)

  1. A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
    • 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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46
    • 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.1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 123

Forms of fishing-smack

pluralfishing-smacks

Questions about fishing-smack

What does fishing-smack mean?
Fishing-smack means a type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
What part of speech is fishing-smack?
Fishing-smack is a noun.
What is the plural of fishing-smack?
The plural of fishing-smack is fishing-smacks.

Words near fishing-smack in the dictionary

  1. fishing vessels
  2. fishing worm
  3. fishing worms
  4. fishing-frog
  5. fishing-frogs
  6. fishing-smack
  7. fishing-smacks
  8. fishing-tube
  9. fishing-tubes
  10. fishingly
  11. fishings

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