chebacco

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
    — On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.

词形变化

chebaccos plural

词源

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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