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.
Browse dictionary entries near coble
- cobia
- Cobham
- cobelligerent
- Cobden
- cobbling
- cobblestone
- cobbler
- cobbled
- cobble
- Cobbett
- Coblenz
- cobnut
- COBOL
- cobra
- cobra de capello
- cobras de capello
- Coburg
- cobweb
- cobwebbed
- cobwebbing
