well boat

See also: wellboat and well-boat

English

Noun

well boat (plural well boats)

1. Alternative form of well-boat
   • 1928, Charles Haskins Townsend, “Collecting the Specimens”, in The Public Aquarium: Its Construction, Equipment, and Management: Appendix VII to the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1928 (Bureau of Fisheries Document; no. 1045), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC; in Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1928 with Appendixes: In Two Parts, part I, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1929, →OCLC, page 284:

     A well boat or small vessel with a water compartment, to which sea water has access, is ideal for the transportation of marine specimens. There are many such vessels in use along the Atlantic coast wherever it is customary to carry fishes and lobsters to market alive. [...] The New York Aquarium has a well boat for this work, which permits great extension of the collecting field and gives excellent results.

   • 2015 April, Tim McBride, with Ralph Berrier, Jr., Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     We had to intercept, load, and run the shipment to our smaller, faster T-Crafts and well boats waiting near the shore to take it to a stash house. A typical job for us.

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