Also 7 lime-, lymboat. ? A boat used for line-fishing.
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Honest Man’s Fort., V. iii. I shall see you Serve in a lowsy Lime boat, ere I die, For mouldy cheese and butter Billingsgate Would not endure.
1614. T. Gentleman, Engl. way to wealth (title), Wealth that is yearely taken out of his Maiesties Seas, by the Hollanders, by their … Busses, Pinkes, and Line-boates.
1662. Roy. Trade of Fishing, 12. Now I will descend to the particulars of the Hollanders Busses, Pincks, Yagers, Lymboats, and the use of them in their several fishings.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 24 April, 8/1. He put it to those who were employed on board line boats if they should lose Sunday at their vocation.
