A fishing boat provided with a well or tank for the storage and transport of live fish.

(See quot. 1718.)

a large vessel used for transportation in the Newfoundland fisheries.

= well-boat, n. 1.

A vessel used to transport fish from a fishing ground to shore. Now rare.

a boat that conveys fish from the fishing ground to market.

Chiefly North American. A fishing vessel equipped with facilities for the refrigeration of fish.

North American. A type of small sailing boat (see quot. 1948). Now historical.

U.S. regional (Chesapeake Bay). = run boat n. at run, n.2 compounds 3. Now historical.

a flat-bottomed centreboard boat used (esp. on the Great Lakes) for carrying fish from pound nets to the shore.

a boat used to collect and transport the catch made by fishing vessels; such a vessel used as a pleasure boat.

(a) a vessel used to transport the ‘catch’ from the fishing-boats to the shore; (b) a contrivance for keeping fish alive whilst transporting them…

U.S. A fishing-vessel having a well in which fish may be kept alive.

See quot. 1902.

An exporter of or dealer in fresh herring from the Scottish fisheries; a ship used for this.

a trawler with facilities for processing the catch; cf. factory ship, n.1 2.