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Coble

//ˈkɒbəl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English.
Noun
  1. 1
    A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.

    "Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English coble, from the Welsh ceubal (“skiff”); ultimately from Latin caupulus.

Etymology 2

* As an English surname, from Middle English cobel (“coble, rowboat”), a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of such or a sailor. See modern coble. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kobel, Goebel.

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