fishing-smack

plural fishing-smacks

1. A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch.

   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.

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

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   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.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46