Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. nautical A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also
pinkstern andchebec .
Etymologies
- From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The deck-piled sloops, the pinched chebacco-boats,”
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 11: Poems from the Teacups Series
“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”
“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”
“For my part, I was born on board a chebacco-man, and never could see the use of more land than now and then”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chebacco’.
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
I'd go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I'd ride him on my boat
And we could all together
Go out on the ocean
Me upon my pony on my boat.boat, ship, skiff, barge, canoe, catamaran, yacht, scow, lifeboat, launch, ketch, dory and 303 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 364 more...
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Like True Newfoundlanders
A place for me to store my Newfoundland English, as I learn it. (Might take a while.)
screech-in, screech, moose milk, bucklish, buckly, buckaloon, buccaloon, newfoundland sock, rum runner, scravel, newfoundland, oonchook and 112 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chebacco.
chained_bear 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 Aug 17, 2009
yarb Couldn't you tell from the accent, reesetee? Jul 30, 2008
reesetee I had no idea Chewbacca was from Newfoundland. Learn something new every day. Jul 30, 2008
jennarenn How would you write down Chewy's lines?
WRrrraaaaaaaaaaowww?
Jul 30, 2008
chained_bear (psst... whichbe, do you mean wookiee chewing tobacco? p.s. get out of my head!) Jul 30, 2008
reesetee Or that. Jul 30, 2008
whichbe Special wookie chewing tobacco. Jul 30, 2008
reesetee (Obsolete) A kind of vessel employed in Newfoundland fisheries; also called pinkstern. Jul 30, 2008