market boat

noun

1. a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
2. a boat for carrying produce to market.
3. a boat assigned or used to bring provisions to a ship.

Word History and Origins

Origin of market boat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

Example Sentences

I lay by an upturned market boat, careful to keep even my feet in the shade.

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It was a fact, and a great pleasure, that an angler could go out for tuna without encountering a single market boat on the sea.

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She sat in the clumsy empty market-boat, guiding the tiller-rope with her foot.

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The water is as smooth as glass; on its surface is one vessel, a heavily laden market boat' (and so on).

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About tin years back I was crew to a Sou' Boston market-boat.

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