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pinnace

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pin⋅nace

  [pin-is]
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–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)   
n.  

  1. A light boat propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a tender for merchant and war vessels.

  2. 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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