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gabbartn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French gabarre. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French gabarre (1324 with reference to Gascony, or earlier; French gabare ) < Old Occitan gabarra flat-bottomed boat with sails and oars (a1382; Occitan gabarra ), apparently < Basque gabarra , kabarra (although this is first attested later: 1680), with metathesis < post-classical Latin carabus kind of light ship (see caravel n.).Compare post-classical Latin gabarra (1367 in Bordeaux), Spanish gabarra (15th cent. with reference to the Basque Country). Compare also Middle French, French †cabarre (1497), probably directly < the Basque form kabarra . Compare further post-classical Latin gabarotus (1339), gabarrotus (1394), both with reference to the Garonne region, apparently reflecting a diminutive formation in a Romance language (compare Old Occitan gabarrot (1410)). Variant forms. In the β. forms remodelled after -ard suffix. In the form gaboard (and perhaps gabbord, gawburd) apparently also influenced by board n. In the form gaboat apparently remodelled after boat n.1 Chiefly Scottish and Irish English in later use. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing 1487 Cely Papers in (1961) 42 149 A gabyr for to have owte the ballast. 1572 W. Malim in tr. N. Martinengo f. 1v (note) Caramusalini be vessels like vnto the French Gabards, which saile daily vpon the riuer of Bordeaux, which saile with a misen or triangle saile. 1580 R. Hitchcock sig. e.iiiv Thether cometh yearely three hundreth Lighters, called Gabers, with Wines. 1642 N. Bernard 37 God..relieved us with the safe comming of the Pinace, a Friggot, a Gabbard, with two Shallops, and another vessel. a1667 P. Mundy (1914) II. 224 Heere are also verie great lighters or Gabares, of 3, 4, or 500 Tonns each. 1714 in R. Renwick (1908) IV. 525 That no barks, gabarts or boats shall moar or lye at the cran. 1775 T. Campbell 27 Feb. (1947) 41 Little gabbards with coals & groceries &c come up here from Bristol. 1817 W. Scott III. ix. 254 Coal barges and gabbards. 1877 2 844 I owned gabbarts [foot-note scows] on the Leven for about twenty years. 1905 20 Sept. 4/6 In the estuaries of the West Coast a big trade was done with claret-laden gabberts from the Continent. 1985 71 32 Locally these river barges [on the River Slaney] are known as gabbards and never as cots. 1997 B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong in N. Munro p. xi At the same time the gabbarts, and later the steam puffers, were attending to the more essential needs of these coastal communities. Compounds 1488 Cely Papers in (1961) 42 149 The gabbard man. 1689 in H. Paton (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 554 Seamen and gabert men. 1776 G. Semple 112 A few Gabbard-men and Labourers. 1886 G. Williamson 163 The gabbart-men and lighter-men on the Clyde tendered the free use of about 60 vessels..for transportation of troops, stores, etc. 1961 16 138 It was also reported that the gabbard men had been ‘resting on their oars’. 2010 A. R. Ekirch (2011) 3 No street urchin knows the waterside better, its wide quays, market stalls, and gabbard-men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1487 |
