chebacco boat

noun

che·​bac·​co boat

shəˈba(ˌ)kō-,

-akə-

: a narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in Newfoundland fisheries

Word History

Etymology

from Chebacco, former parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts, (now in the town of Essex), where it originated

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