Meaning of fishing-smack | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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.”

“ON a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun.”

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