fishing-smack

English

Noun

fishing-smack (plural fishing-smacks)

1. A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46:

     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.

   • 1912, S. Moore Sites, Nathan Sites: An Epic of the East‎^[1], Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 123:

     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.