Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong clincher-built craft, having a large foresail, spritsail, and jigger, used in fishing for mackerel.
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Examples
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There was a rush past the little window, and then Ned bustled into the room, bringing with him a breath of strong sea air and also of the odours of the mackerel-boat.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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The living is small enough, but the place is as full of dissent as a mackerel-boat of fish, and as for getting the tithes -- well, I cannot, that's all.
Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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