chebacco

See also: Chebacco

English

A picture of an "old style Chebacco boat drailing for mackerel" (from 1887)

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.

Noun

chebacco (plural chebaccos)

1. (nautical) A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
   • 1830, Silas Pinckney Holbrook, Sketches, by a Traveller:

     On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.

Synonyms

• pink stern

See also

• chebec

References

• “chebacco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.