sixernn.
/ˈsɪksən/ Shetland.
A six-oared boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > for specific number of rowers
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1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 103 Sixareen, a six-oared Norway skiff.
1881 Standard 9 Aug. 6/3 The ‘Sixern’..will not on the average exceed 19 ft. in length by about 5 ft. or 6 ft. in breadth and 4 ft. in depth.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 46 Model of a ‘Sixern’, ‘Sixareen’, or six-oared yawl.
1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail v. 114 Very few ‘sexerns’ are now being built.
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