market boat

American  

noun

1. a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.

2. a boat for carrying produce to market.

3. a boat assigned or used to bring provisions to a ship.

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Etymology

Origin of market boat

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

Example Sentences

It was a fact, and a great pleasure, that an angler could go out for tuna without encountering a single market boat on the sea.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane

Olivo introduced him as Abbate Rossi, and Casanova at once recognized him as the man he had met twenty-seven years earlier upon a market boat plying between Venice and Chioggia.

From Casanova's Homecoming by Paul, Cedar

A big market boat from Palestrina winged past them, sliding over the oily water.

From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert

He told her he was sure the Seamew was fast enough for a Boston market boat.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

The proprietors, who paid in trade, had deposited the butter and oats equivalent to her hire in the market boat, in which she intended to proceed to town.

From Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony by Beavan, F. (Frederick), Mrs.