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hag-boat
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 an...
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hog-boat
hog-boat var. of hag-boat.1872 Daily News 24 Aug., On came the hog-boat full sail, and with the water spurting up at her bows.
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HMS Newcastle (1704)
On 10 June 1711 Newcastle engaged a French flotilla consisting of a 36-gun ship, a 24-gun hag-boat, nine privateer sloops, and two other vessels off Martinique
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hagg
▪ I. hag, n.1 (hæg) Forms: α. 3–7 hegge, 6–7 heg. β. 4–7 hagge, 6–8 hagg, 6– hag. [The form hegge is found once early in 13th c.; hagge once in 14th; otherwise the word is not known till the 16th c. Usually conjectured to be a shortened form of OE. hægtesse, hæhtisse, hægtes, -tis, hegtes ‘fury, wit...
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