coble

(bəl, käbəl)

noun

  1. a small fishing boat with a lug sail, a deeper draft at the bow than at the stern, and a large rudder, used off the northeast coast of England
  2. in Scotland, a short, flat-bottomed rowboat

Origin: ME cobel < OE cuopel, prob. < Celt, as in Welsh ceubal, Bret caubal (> ? L caupulus)

See coble in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. Nautical A small flatbottom fishing boat with a lugsail on a raking mast.
  2. Scots A kind of flatbottom rowboat.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English cobel

Origin: , perhaps ultimately from Latin caupulus, a kind of small ship

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