coble
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of coble
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English cobel; probably of Celtic origin (compare Welsh ceubal, ceubol “skiff, ferryboat”), ultimately from Late Latin caupulus, caupilus “small sailing vessel with a high prow”
Example Sentences
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There the captors of Miss Macrae must have touched, burned their coble, and taken to some larger and fleeter vessel.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
A vast drowning billow leaped forward, and when the cloud of spray had scattered, there was no coble to be seen.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
A coble wanted six men and two boys to work her: a yawl would carry fifty tons, and some were always out a fishin’.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
The blasts galloped down through the hollows, and struck the brown sail of the coble like the sound of musketry.
From The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman
A coble was converted into a lifeboat on these principles by Lukin, and launched at Bamborough, where, in the course of the first year, it was the means of saving many lives.
From The Lifeboat by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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