mussel boat

noun

A commercial fishing vessel used for harvesting and farming mussels, often seen in major aquaculture regions like the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain.

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nounmussel boat (plural mussel boats)

plural mussel boats

  1. A commercial fishing vessel used for harvesting and farming mussels, often seen in major aquaculture regions like the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain.

    So we ware both put into a mussellbote / And came saling in a sowes yeare ouer sea into Kent.

    1579, James Orchard Halliwell, The Marriage of WITT AND WISDOME an Ancient Interlude, page 13
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