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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fishing smack¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

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

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He owned a little fishing-smack, in which he went short trips down the coast.

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Sometimes a yacht would pass us, sometimes a fishing-smack; but it was a lonely journey.

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For how could three industrious conspirators in a fishing smack off the Lizard do him any further damage?

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The clothes hung about Don Pedro like the sails of a ship about the slender poles of a fishing–smack.

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