drift boat

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small fishing boat used in tending drift nets.

Quotations

1879

The drift boats are doing extremely well, some of the boats taking as high as five or six hundred [shad] a night.

1953

Where others have turned to using "drift" boats to tend their nets, he alone fishes with horse and ladder.