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  • noun (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.

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  • noun nautical A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.

Etymologies

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From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built.

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  • (Obsolete) A kind of vessel employed in Newfoundland fisheries; also called pinkstern.

    July 30, 2008

  • Special wookie chewing tobacco.

    July 30, 2008

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    July 30, 2008

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    July 30, 2008

  • How would you write down Chewy's lines?

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    July 30, 2008

  • I had no idea Chewbacca was from Newfoundland. Learn something new every day.

    July 31, 2008

  • Couldn't you tell from the accent, reesetee?

    July 31, 2008

  • 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