hag-boat
Rarely hag.
[Origin unknown: cf. heck-boat.]
A kind of vessel formerly used both as a man-of-war, and in the timber and coal trade; latterly ‘a clincher-built boat with covered fore-sheets and one mast with a trysail’ (Smyth).
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hagboat, a huge Vessel for Bulk and Length, Built chiefly to fetch great Masts, etc. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4329/6 The Mary Hagboat, English-built, Burthen about 350 Tons, 8 Guns. 1711 Ibid. No. 4906/2, I met..a French Ship of Thirty-six Guns, a Hag-boat of Twenty-four. 1725 De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (1748) II. 144 The Ships that bring them [coals], Cats, and Hags, or Hag-boats, Fly-boats, and the like. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) G g b, Hag-boats and pinks approach the figure of cats, the former being a little broader in the stern. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hag-boat, see Heck-boat. Heck-boat, the old term for pinks. |