Coble Definition

kōbəl
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.
Webster's New World
In Scotland, a short, flat-bottomed rowboat.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Coble

Noun

Singular:
coble
Plural:
cobles

Origin of Coble

  • Middle English cobel perhaps ultimately from Latin caupulus a kind of small ship

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English coble, from Welsh ceubal (“skiff”)

    From Wiktionary

Coble Sentence Examples

  • Once over three hundred boats fished from using traditional fishing coble designed to be launched and landed on the beach.

  • The finest free show in town, it features sea monsters, a real fishing coble to climb aboard on.

  • This one is shown here, Now follows the sailing coble with its traditional dipping lugsail.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOB

Words Ending With

ELEBLE

Unscrambles

coble

Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With LE

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With C5 Letter Words Ending With E