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buy boat

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noun

  1. a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.

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We stopped only long enough to sell our scanty harvest to a buy boat along the way and then headed straight for Rass.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

The debris was shoved into the Bay and the good oysters forward until they could be sold to a buy boat, which would take them to market.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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