Tue 8 Sep 2009
“The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,” (Song of Myself, 41)
“or off on a cruise with fishers in a fishing smack” (“Walt Whitman, A Brooklyn Boy”)
Smack, n.:
1. A single-masted sailing-vessel, fore-and-aft rigged like a sloop or cutter, and usually of light burden, chiefly employed as a coaster or for fishing, and formerly as a tender to a ship of war.
b. U.S. A fishing-vessel having a well in which fish may be kept alive.
(Oxford English Dictionary)
A fishing smack named the Victorious. (www.victorious.co.uk)
September 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I consider myself more knowledgeable as far as vocabulary goes now. I also plan to specify that my boat (when I go a-pirating) be a sloop, fore-and-aft rigged.