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Once a week Craney would come down the coast in a clumsy catboat, and we'd take a load up to the town, which was called "Corazon,"--a considerable town forty miles off, where were French and Spanish agencies in the cocoa trade Every day a cautious, stringy-haired Injun, with a loaded donkey, would come trotting out of the woods to the shed, or maybe several of them at odd times.

—The Belted Seas

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noun A broad-beamed sailboat carrying a single sail on a mast stepped well forward and often fitted with a centerboard.

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By the beach adjacent to the Governor's House, Kem Jackson was taking young people for rides aboard his blue catboat, the Captain D, which he was sailing all along the shore. — Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
The last new Benjamin design sailboat launched at the boatyard was a 24-foot catboat. — Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories
This boat is the bench whereon you wait for the launch to carry you down the Pond, for the catboat or thirty-footer to be brought in from her moorings, for Cap'n Perry to land with a load of oysters; or it is the bench you sit upon to watch the sunset glow behind the pines on the opposite headland, the pines where the blue herons roost, or to see the moon track on the dancing water. — Modern American Prose Selections
Me head's gettin' that swelled I couldn't draw a watch cap down over me ears The exhaust of the auxiliary engine of the catboat was spitting when Frenchy hailed their mates. — Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats
Came sailing out in a crazy catboat, Valentina did, and towed me in. — Wilt Thou Torchy