fishing-smack
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.58 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
Example Sentences
- "The farmer on Udröst owns his fishing-smack just like any other farmer in the north; sometimes the fishermen see it under full sails, and steering right down upon them, but just as they expect to be run down, it disappears."
- "ON a Monday morning two missionaries came down to the beach of a little harbor on the Hokchiang coast and boarded a fishing-smack to go over to the Island of the Southern Sun."