Fishing-smack

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.

    "The farmer on Udröst owns his fishing-smack just like any other farmer in the north; sometimes the fishermen see it under full sails, and steering right down upon them, but just as they expect to be run down, it disappears."

Example

More examples

"The farmer on Udröst owns his fishing-smack just like any other farmer in the north; sometimes the fishermen see it under full sails, and steering right down upon them, but just as they expect to be run down, it disappears."

More for "fishing-smack"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.