cheˈbacco Obs. exc. Hist.
[By Worcester and Webster conjectured to be named from Chebacco, old name of Essex in Massachusetts.]
chebacco-boat, chebacco-man: A kind of vessel employed in the Newfoundland fisheries; called also pinkstern.
| 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot (1824) i. ii. 22, I was born on board a chebacco-man. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iii. 27 Those short stump-masted non-de-scripts..sometimes denominated fishing smacks, but oftener and more euphoniously ‘Chebacco boats’. 1837 Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. vi. 92 Innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing schooners and chebacco boats. 1859 Congress. Globe 22. Feb 1210/1, I recollect a little stream in the county of Essex, in Massachusetts, where, some fifty years ago, they used to manufacture a sort of little boat, called chebacco boat. 1886 Leslie's Pop. Monthly XXI. 223/1 Squam was in its ascendency in the days of the old pinkies and of the still earlier chebacco-boats. |