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ˈstow-boat local.
[Of obscure origin; perh. an alteration of stall-boat, from association with stow v.1 Cf. stow-net.
This view gains some support from the forms storbanting, storbatin, given in the Eng. Dial. Dict. as the Suffolk pronunciation of ‘Stow-boating, (1) dredging up stone at sea for making Roman cement (Kent); (2) fishing for sprats (Suff.).’ But the final l in stall is normally dropped only in northern and north midland dialects.]
A kind of boat used in fishing for sprats. Also attrib. Hence ˈstowboating vbl. n.
1833Rep. Sel. Comm. Brit. Channel Fisheries 11 The Stow-boat Fishery, or Catching of Sprats for Manure. Ibid., There are at present from 400 to 500 Boats engaged in Stow-boating on the Kentish Coast only. Ibid. 58 How many men are there on board the stow-boats? 1883St. James's Gaz. 21 Dec. 6/1 It is to the stow-boats..that the London poor owe their chief supply of these valuable little fish. |