coble

noun

Definition of coblenext
as in whaler

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  1. whaler
  2. whaleboat
  3. ferry
  4. lugger
  5. workboat
  6. ferryboat
  7. shrimper
  8. seiner
Noun
  • Of the 20 or 21 whalers who left Nantucket on the Essex, only eight survived.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The cast of Swept Away, the about-to-open Broadway musical that follows four whalers on an odyssey of survival and salvation, are a tight crew.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of whaler
Noun
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Definition of whaleboat
Noun
  • By lunchtime, the couple was fed up and caught an early ferry back to Sorrento.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Candela first revealed plans for a foiling electric ferry in 2021, though what later became the P-12 morphed into something quite different from the early renders.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of ferry
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Definition of lugger
Noun
  • With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022
Definition of workboat
Noun
  • For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.
    Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.
    Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
Definition of ferryboat
Noun
  • But rather than use this long period of protection to invest in modernization, U.S. shrimpers opted to extort payments from foreign producers in exchange for their suspension of proceedings that might have resulted in higher duties.
    Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, couldn't sell shrimp during the COVID-19 pandemic and filed for unemployment benefits.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of shrimper
Noun
  • Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
Definition of seiner
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