market boat

noun

1. a boat that transfers fish from a fishing fleet to a market on shore.
2. a boat for carrying produce to market.
3. a boat assigned or used to bring provisions to a ship.

Word History and Origins

Origin of market boat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

Example Sentences

Phosphor, the morning star, sees the renewal of life; the bird with its early song, the rising sun, the market boat again floating and voices calling to it from the shore, the village blacksmith with his clinking hammer, and the team again harnessed and at work.

From Project Gutenberg

The unexpected violence of the Commonwealth's reaction posed a sharp dilemma for Britain: whether to risk splitting the Commonwealth, with all its historic ties, or to risk missing the Common Market boat.

From Time Magazine Archive

I lay by an upturned market boat, careful to keep even my feet in the shade.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a fact, and a great pleasure, that an angler could go out for tuna without encountering a single market boat on the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

And a second day as wonderful was at Burano, with its rose-flushed houses and gardens and traditions of noise and quarrels, and the girls who followed the boat along the bank and pelted us with roses until Jobbins vowed he would go and live there—and he did, but a market boat brought him back in a week.

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