coble

coble Definition

co·ble (kō′bəl, käb′əl)

noun

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
in Scotland, a short, flat-bottomed rowboat

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

coble Usage Examples

Converse of object

call: Fishermen in the North East used to turn their old wooden boats ( called cobles ) upside down to make shelters.
use: They used wooden salmon cobles to fish for salmon.

Adjective modifier

traditional: Once over three hundred boats fished from using traditional fishing coble designed to be launched and landed on the beach.
small: The harbor was once busy with small cobles working stake nets for salmon off the River Tyne.
wooden: They used wooden salmon cobles to fish for salmon.

Modifies a noun

fishery: Today, around 30 % of salmon and sea trout are taken by commercial fixed engine and net and coble fisheries.
fishing: Fixed engines are covered under the same regulations as net and coble fishing ( 23 ).

Noun used with modifier

salmon: Beside the small buildings are four salmon cobles, three of which are upside down.
fishing: The finest free show in town, it features sea monsters, a real fishing coble to climb aboard on.
sailing: From the start of the last century right into the new Millenium, sailing cobles have brought interest to visitors to the harbor.

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