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1629 T. Smethwike Motion to East India Company (single sheet) 860 tons of trading ships and certaine frigots, &c.

1737 Wonderful Life Robinson Crusoe Epitomized (new ed.) 18 My Hopes were to meet some of the English trading Vessels, that would..take us in and relieve us.

1738 W. Stephens Jrnl. 15 June in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) I. 221 An Indian trading Boat arrived.

1743 C. Packe Ανκογραϕια 58 The numberless Sail of the Trading-craft.

1819 Edinb. Philos. Jrnl. 1 132 The fish are carried..to Aberdeen, and from thence in regular trading smacks to London.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 219/2 He ran over the steering-oar of a trading-scow.

1895 C. M. Yonge Long Vac. xviii. 181 He..set her up at Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had chosen that place on account of American trading-vessels putting in there.

1900 M. E. Braddon Infidel i. 5 They went to London together, meaning to sail for Jersey in a trading smack.

1923 ‘R. Daly’ Enchanted Island xv. 154 I'm trying to figure out our chances of being picked up if we stay here. It's not on the track of any regular trading-boats.

2014 Tamworth Herald (Nexis) 17 Apr. 5 A dozen trading boats will take to the water to sell a whole host of handmade and unique goods.