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well boat

well boat is the alternative form 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 boat

pluralwell boats

Questions about well boat

What is well boat the alternative form of?
Well boat is the alternative form of well-boat.

Words near well boat in the dictionary

  1. well aware
  2. well aye
  3. well begun is half done
  4. well behaved
  5. well being
  6. well boat
  7. well boats
  8. well brought up
  9. well built
  10. well car
  11. well cars

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