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buy boat

American  

noun

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

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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 Literature

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

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One cousin wanted to buy boat tickets and reserve a hotel; the other wanted to “play it by ear.”

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