catboat
English
Etymology
Noun
catboat (plural catboats)
- A sailing boat with a single sail, usually rigged on a gaff spar, used for fishing in New England and later adapted for racing and cruising. It has a single mast set near to the bow and a long boom which may extend over the stern.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
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