Chebacco

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.

    "On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn."

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pink sternpink stern

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"On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn."

Etymology

From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.

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