| 单词 |
chebacco |
| 释义 |
cheˈbacco Obs. exc. Hist. [By Worcester and Webster conjectured to be named from Chebacco, old name of Essex in Massachusetts.] chebacco-boat, chebacco-man: A kind of vessel employed in the Newfoundland fisheries; called also pinkstern.
1823J. F. Cooper Pilot (1824) i. ii. 22, I was born on board a chebacco-man. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iii. 27 Those short stump-masted non-de-scripts..sometimes denominated fishing smacks, but oftener and more euphoniously ‘Chebacco boats’. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. vi. 92 Innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing schooners and chebacco boats. 1859Congress. Globe 22. Feb 1210/1, I recollect a little stream in the county of Essex, in Massachusetts, where, some fifty years ago, they used to manufacture a sort of little boat, called chebacco boat. 1886Leslie's Pop. Monthly XXI. 223/1 Squam was in its ascendency in the days of the old pinkies and of the still earlier chebacco-boats. |

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