[app. a. Pg. xabeco, OSp. xabeque, and so the same word as CHEBEC, XEBEC. (Knight, Pract. Dict. Mech. gives it under the form chebec.)
(By Worcester and Webster conjectured to be named from Chebacco, old name of Essex in Massachusetts.)]
Chebacco-boat: A kind of vessel employed in the Newfoundland fisheries; called also pinkstern.
1837. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. vi. 92. Innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchant-men, fishing schooners and chebacco boats.
