fishing smack

noun

any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.

Origin of fishing smack

First recorded in 1775–85

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Is there no chance of your discovering the whereabouts of that fishing-smack?
The Albert Gate Mystery
Louis Tracy
And then all round was the lonely sea, with never a ship nor a fishing-smack in sight.
Mrs. Craddock
W. Somerset Maugham
The other declared that Dickens did more than that: he would often go into the fishing-smack.
From Workhouse to Westminster
George Haw
Those men must be the three that belonged to the fishing-smack, said David.
Peter Cotterell's Treasure
Rupert Sargent Holland
Why, then I saw the fishing-smack, and wanted to go after the thieves.
Peter Cotterell's Treasure
Rupert Sargent Holland