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单词 peter-boat
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peter-boatn.

Brit. /ˈpiːtəbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈpidərˌboʊt/
Forms: see Peter n. and boat n.1
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Peter , boat n.1
Etymology: < the name of St Peter (see Peter n.) + boat n.1
Now English regional (south-eastern) and historical.
On the Thames and the coasts around its estuary: a heavy clinker-built fishing boat, decked forward and aft and ranging from about twelve to nineteen feet (approx. 3.5 to 5.75 m) in length (depending on which part of the river it worked), with a well for preserving the catch. In later use also (occasionally) applied to some other boats working the area.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
spindlers-boat1243
manfare1326
stall boat1328
dogger1338
hackboat1344
coble1493
peter-boat1540
monger1558
trimboat1558
shotter1580
crab-skuit1614
fly-boat1614
cantera1642
dogger-boat1646
cag1666
yawl1670
barca-longa1681
hogboat1784
fishing-smack1785
hooker1801
hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
garookuh1855
jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
skipjack1887
fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
1540 in R. G. Marsden Select Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 99 I..being in a certeyn petyr boat comyng toward the towne of Lye.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe ii. sig. C If we haue but good draughts in my peeter-boate.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 69/1 Discovered by the people of a peterboat, on the shore somewhere below Gravesend.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 148/1 The boats of the dredgermen are of a peculiar shape... They are called Peter boats.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. §2745 Model of ‘Peterboat’, used in the whitebait fishery.
1903 H. Holmes Life & Adventures 21 I was backing and filling my little sails fore and aft, like a little peterboat catching whitebait.
1947 D. Burwash Eng. Merchant Shipping 258 Seven of these deserve special mention, the coble, peter-boat, and trink-boat among the fishing craft, the keels, shouts, wherries, and trows among the transport vessels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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