herring-buss

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We waited for a herring-buss coming towards us, and spoke to her.

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  1. A boat of peculiar form, measuring 10 or 15 tons, used in the herring-fishery. [Eng.] From the commencement of the winter fishing 1771, to the end of the winter fishing 1781, the tonnage bounty upon the herring-buss fishery has been at thirty shillings the ton. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, iv. 5.

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  • We waited for a herring-buss coming towards us, and spoke to her. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
  • Master Freake was giving final instructions to the owner of a herring-buss that was creaking noisily against the side of the jetty under the swell of the tide. —  The Yeoman Adventurer
  • "His cunning, at least, I do, which, in Court affairs, often takes the weather-gage of wisdom, -- as in Yarmouth Roads a herring-buss will baffle a frigate. —  Peveril of the Peak
 

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