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ˈpeter-boat
[app. f. Peter n.1 + boat n.: cf. Peterman.]
Local name (chiefly on the Thames and adjacent coasts) for a decked fishing-boat smaller than a smack or yawl; also for a dredgerman's double-ended boat, travelling equally well bow or stern foremost.
1540in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pl. Crt. Adm. (1894) I. 99, I..being in a certeyn petyr boat comyng toward the towne of Lye. 1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Hoe ii. i. Wks. 1873 III. 20 If we haue but good draughts in my peeter-boate. 1769Chron. in Ann. Reg. 69/1 Discovered by the people of a peterboat, on the shore somewhere below Gravesend. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 148 The boats of the dredgermen are of a peculiar shape. They have no stern, but are the same fore and aft. They are called Peter boats. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xii. 18 Model of ‘Peterboat’, used in the whitebait fishery. |