coble

noun

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as in whaler

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  1. whaler
  2. whaleboat
  3. ferry
  4. lugger
  5. workboat
  6. ferryboat
  7. shrimper
  8. seiner
Noun
  • But based on the financial success of its previous voyages in search of sperm oil—a high-quality lighting oil derived from the spermaceti organ in the head of the sperm whale—it was considered a desirable, even lucky, ship by local whalers.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of whaler
Noun
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Definition of whaleboat
Noun
  • The Olympic Peninsula to British Columbia Walking & Hiking Tour offers the chance to watch seabirds, whales, and other marine life by shore and sea, on ferries, in kayaks, and from waterfront hotels.
    Everett Potter, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • There, on the ferry, was a labourer eating oysters using a jack knife taken from his pocket, tossing shell after shell overboard.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of ferry
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Definition of lugger
Noun
  • With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
Definition of workboat
Noun
  • For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.
    Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.
    Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Definition of ferryboat
Noun
  • According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1. Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of shrimper
Noun
  • Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
Definition of seiner
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