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well-boats

well-boats is the plural of well-boat.

Meaning of well-boat

Noun

well-boat (plural well-boats)

  1. A fishing vessel designed to carry live fish in a tank or well.
    • 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; [...]1695, [Company of the Royal Fishery of England], “A Collection, with Some Observations, Touching the Royal Fishery of Great Britain and Ireland. [First, Increase of Shipping.]”, in A Collection of...
    Synonyms:
    live fish carrier

Forms of well-boats

alternative formwell boats
alternative formwellboats

Questions about well-boats

What is well-boats the plural of?
Well-boats is the plural of well-boat.

Words near well-boats in the dictionary

  1. well-being
  2. well-beings
  3. well-beloved
  4. well-beseen
  5. well-boat
  6. well-boats
  7. well-born
  8. well-bred
  9. well-breeched
  10. well-brought-up
  11. well-built

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