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COBLE

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co⋅ble

[koh-buhl]
–noun
a flat-bottomed fishing boat with a lugsail, used mainly in northern England and Scotland for salmon.
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co·ble   (kō'bəl)   
n.  
  1. Nautical A small flatbottom fishing boat with a lugsail on a raking mast.

  2. Scots A kind of flatbottom rowboat.


[Middle English cobel, perhaps ultimately from Latin caupulus, a kind of small ship.]
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