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Fishing boat   /fˈɪʃɪŋ boʊt/   Listen
Fishing boat

noun
1.
A vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive.  Synonyms: fishing smack, fishing vessel.






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"Fishing boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... were made the subjects of discussion. Some were for going to America, and some for landing; and at last the conclusion was arrived at that the majority of the officers should be landed, and that the others should go either to America or to the Western Isles—the Hebrides. They hailed a large fishing boat, and offered the man on board L2 to put two men on shore. He went on board the brigantine, and when he did so, twenty-eight men who were hitherto concealed, rushed on board his ship. He asked them if he would land them at Helwick Point, ...
— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown

... each hatch-way, through which, in case of need, boiling water can be sent under strong pressure. Just as we landed here, about five hundred large fishes were passed through a circular net from a well in the steamer into a well in a fishing boat, to which all the fishmongers in Hong Kong ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... fishing boat—picked up Sam's hydroplane at sea and towed it in. It's in pretty good shape, I hear, although the engine is out of commission and it was ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson

... the morning of August 5, 1914, Captain Fox, on board the Amphion, came up with a fishing boat which reported that it had seen a boat "throwing things overboard" along the east coast. A flotilla, consisting of the Lance, Laurel, Lark and Linnet, set out in search of the stranger and soon found her. She was the Koenigin Luise, and the things she was casting overboard were mines. ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) - The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan



Words linked to "Fishing boat" :   dragger, vessel, trawler, watercraft



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