1) Boat type 2) Traditional boat
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The coble is a type of open traditional fishing boat which developed on the North East coast of England. The southern-most examples occur around Hull (although Cooke drew examples at Yarmouth, see his Shipping and Craft series of drawings of 1829); the type extends to Burnmouth just across the Scottish border. The distinctive shape of the boat —...
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• (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.
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Co'ble noun [ Anglo-Saxon
cuopel ; confer W.
ceubal skiff, ferryboat.] A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.
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A coble was a low, flat-bottomed boat with a square stern formerly used in the cod and turbot fishing industries. It weighed about one ton, was twenty feet long and five feet wide, rowed by three pairs of oars and fitted with a lug-sail. It was well adapted for encountering a heavy swell and were extensively used on the north-east coast of Britain ...
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a small boat.
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