Tancookn.
/ˈtankʊk/ Now historical.
Used attributively in Tancook whaler, a double-ended schooner, about 45 feet long of a type formerly built on Tancook. Also Tancook schooner.
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1933 Yachting Feb. 102/2 It will be the last model of a real Tancook whaler made in Nova Scotia.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Sept. 23/7 The Scotia schooner built to slide over rocks is Nicholas G. Schlegel's Windstark. The type is called a ‘Tancook schooner’, from the locality in Nova Scotia where she was built.
1951 H. I. Chapelle Amer. Small Sailing Craft iii. 166 The Tancook whaler was one of the most handsome of the double-enders used on the Atlantic Coast.
1967 H. F. Pullen Atlantic Schooners 33 The Tancook whaler was somewhat similar to the pinky, but with much sharper lines.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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