smack

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A vessel, sometimes like a cutter, used for mercantile purposes, or for carrying passengers; the largest of which, the Leith smacks, attained the size of 200 tons.

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← slyng × smack-smooth →

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Smack
·vi A loud kiss; a buss. II. Smack ·vi A small quantity; a taste. III. Smack ·adv As if with a sma...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to smack
To kiss. I had a smack at her muns: I kissed her mouth. To smack calves skin; to kiss the book, i.e....

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
smack smooth
At the West, a term applied to land which is thoroughly cleared; i. e. smoothly cleared; level. It i...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
barrack smack
A corruption of Berwick smack; a word applied to small Scotch traders. The masters were nicknamed ba...

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berwick smack
The old and well-found packets of former days, until superseded by steamers. (See barrack smack.) ...

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fishing-smack
A sloop having in the hold a well wherein to preserve the fish, particularly lobsters, alive. ...

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smack-smooth
Level with the surface; said of a mast which has gone by the board. ...

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