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pin⋅nace

[pin-is]

–noun

1.	a light sailing ship, esp. one formerly used in attendance on a larger ship.

2.	any of various kinds of ship's boats.

3.	a small 17th-century ship having two or three masts and a flat stern, used in northern Europe as a warship and merchant ship and as a tender.

Origin:
1540–50; < MF pinace < OSp pinaza lit., something made of pino pine ¹

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pin·nace (pĭn'ĭs) Pronunciation Key
n.

A light boat propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a tender for merchant and war vessels.
Any of various kinds of ship's boats.

[French pinace, from Old French, probably from Old Spanish pinaza, from pino, pine tree, boat, from Latin pīnus; see peiə- in Indo-European roots.]

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pinnace
noun
a boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: tender]

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Pinnace

Pin"nace\, n. [F. pinasse; cf. It. pinassa, pinazza, Sp. pinaza; all from L. pinus a pine tree, anything made of pine, e.g., a ship. Cf. Pine a tree.]

1. (Naut.) (a) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne. (b) A man-of-war's boat.

Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs. --Shak.

2. A procuress; a pimp. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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