chebacco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.

Word forms

chebacco chebaccos

Etymology

From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.

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