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noun
A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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History
From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.
