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Definition of coble in English: coblenoun ˈkəʊb(ə)l A flat-bottomed fishing boat of a type used in Scotland and north-eastern England. Example sentencesExamples - The 88-year-old coble, a flat-bottomed fishing boat, had survived a direct hit by a stick bomb in 1943, which went right through her hull.
- In the 1820s there were 130 fishermen sailing 35 cobles and five large herring boats.
- We have reached the waterside where a fishing coble is moored to the bank.
- The dock was famous the world over in drawings and paintings of the village when it was filled with brown-sailed fishing cobles.
- At night the woman would feel stabs of fear as she thought of the tossing coble where her man was earning a living for them.
Origin Old English, perhaps of Celtic origin and related to Welsh ceubal 'ferry boat, skiff'. Rhymes ennoble, Froebel, global, Grenoble, ignoble, noble |