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fishing smack
noun
- any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fishing smack1
First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences
The little bullet-headed Jim was drafted off to the workhouse school, and from thence to a small fishing-smack.
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He owned a little fishing-smack, in which he went short trips down the coast.
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Sometimes a yacht would pass us, sometimes a fishing-smack; but it was a lonely journey.
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For how could three industrious conspirators in a fishing smack off the Lizard do him any further damage?
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The clothes hung about Don Pedro like the sails of a ship about the slender poles of a fishing–smack.
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