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fishing-smacks

fishing-smacks is the plural of fishing-smack.

Meaning of fishing-smack

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

Questions about fishing-smacks

What is fishing-smacks the plural of?
Fishing-smacks is the plural of fishing-smack.

Words near fishing-smacks in the dictionary

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

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