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wellboat

wellboat 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 wellboat

pluralwellboats

Questions about wellboat

What is wellboat the alternative form of?
Wellboat is the alternative form of well-boat.

Words near wellboat in the dictionary

  1. Wellands
  2. wellaway
  3. wellbeing
  4. wellbeings
  5. wellbeloved
  6. wellboat
  7. wellboats
  8. wellbore
  9. wellbores
  10. wellborn
  11. Wellborns

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