A boat used by fishermen.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 162/2. Fyscharys boote, phaselus.
1541. Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 2. The great diminucion of the Kinges nauie, fisherbotes and mariners.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 394. To send the Baggage by Sea, in six great Fisher-boats.
1741–3. Wesley, Extract of Jrnl. (1749), 110. It seem’d strange to me, to attempt going in a fisher-boat, fifteen leagues upon the main ocean.
1874. Farrar, Christ, 136. The waters of its lake were ploughed by 4,000 vessels of every description, from the war-vessel of the Romans to the the rough fisher-boats of Bethsaida and the gilded pinnaces from Herod’d palace.
fig. 1663. Cowley, Pindar, Odes, To Mr. Hobs, iv.
| The Baltique, Euxin, and the Caspian, | |
| And slender-limb’d Mediterranean, | |
| Seem narrow Creeks to thee, and only fit | |
| For the poor wretched Fisher-boats of Wit. |
