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fishing smack

American  

noun

  1. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.


Etymology

Origin of fishing smack

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

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The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden in a fishing smack.

From Time Magazine Archive

They skied some 100 miles from Oslo, over the mountains to the sea, got aboard a fishing smack and later a tramp steamer, which took them to England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand."

From Time Magazine Archive

Early one morning last week a fishing smack trailed by a rowboat �routine indications of a channel swimmer�appeared in St. Margaret's Bay, England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ten days had passed since the half-drowned sailors had been picked up by the English fishing smack, and still no message from Kent.

From Molly Brown of Kentucky by Speed, Nell

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