pinkstern

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pinkstern - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Chebacco \Che*bac"co\, n. [From Chebacco, the former name of
     Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were
     built.] (Naut.)
     A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland
     fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
     --Bartlett.
     [1913 Webster]