Definitions
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- noun (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also
pinkstern andchebec .
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- noun nautical A narrow-
sterned boat formerly much used in theNewfoundland fisheries .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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The deck-piled sloops, the pinched chebacco-boats,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The deck-piled sloops, the pinched chebacco-boats,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11: Poems from the Teacups Series Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a handcart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of
The Village Uncle (From "Twice Told Tales") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchantmen, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a hand-cart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then
The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820
reesetee commented on the word chebacco
(Obsolete) A kind of vessel employed in Newfoundland fisheries; also called pinkstern.
July 30, 2008
whichbe commented on the word chebacco
Special wookie chewing tobacco.
July 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word chebacco
Or that.
July 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word chebacco
(psst... whichbe, do you mean wookiee chewing tobacco? p.s. get out of my head!)
July 30, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word chebacco
How would you write down Chewy's lines?
WRrrraaaaaaaaaaowww?
July 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word chebacco
I had no idea Chewbacca was from Newfoundland. Learn something new every day.
July 31, 2008
yarb commented on the word chebacco
Couldn't you tell from the accent, reesetee?
July 31, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word chebacco
Usage on trashfish. Also...
"Each spring the chebaccos were scraped and caulked and tarred and sent out to the fishing grounds. Once there, the boats were anchored, and the men hand-lined over the side from the low midship rail."
—Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 22–23
August 17, 2009