fishing smack
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fishing smack
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden in a fishing smack.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from Boston; among its crew was a Portuguese called James Brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
He started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with him a 19-year-old "admiral" decked out in a musical comedy sailor suit.
From Time Magazine Archive
They skied some 100 miles from Oslo, over the mountains to the sea, got aboard a fishing smack and later a tramp steamer, which took them to England.
From Time Magazine Archive
We kept our little fishing smack at Shoreham, but otherwise we Lees was all honest cottager folk—at Warminghurst under Washington—Bramber way—on the old Penn estate.’
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
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