fishing smack


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

Origin of fishing smack

1
First recorded in 1775–85

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How to use fishing smack in a sentence

  • The little bullet-headed Jim was drafted off to the workhouse school, and from thence to a small fishing-smack.

    The Chequers | James Runciman
  • He owned a little fishing-smack, in which he went short trips down the coast.

    The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith
  • Sometimes a yacht would pass us, sometimes a fishing-smack; but it was a lonely journey.

    The Relief of Mafeking | Filson Young
  • For how could three industrious conspirators in a fishing smack off the Lizard do him any further damage?

    The Dark Star | Robert W. Chambers
  • The clothes hung about Don Pedro like the sails of a ship about the slender poles of a fishing–smack.

    Fighting the Sea | Edward A. Rand