gabert
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare French gabare, Breton kobar, gobar.
Noun edit
gabert (plural gaberts)
- (Scotland) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
- 1793, anonymous author, Buckinghamshire Herald:
- In a block or pully, near the head of the mast of a gabert, now lying at the Broomielaw, there is chaffinch's nest
References edit
- “gabert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.