DCHP-3

fishboat

DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)

Spelling variants:
fish boat, fish-boat

n. — Fishing, also attributively, e.g. fishboat skipper, fishboat owner, British Columbia

a fishing boat.

Type: 5. Frequency — The more frequent term in Canada is fishing boat. Changes in noun compounds from the long form with -ing to the short from without it have been ongoing for more than a century and depend on the lexical item, e.g. dump truck has long outnumbered the original dumping truck (Dollinger 2015b: 181-183, see note in drinking box). Fish boat or fishboat has some currency in Canada as in other countries (see Chart 2) and is especially common in BC (see Chart 1).
See also COD-2, which marks the term "Cdn (esp. BC)".

Quotations

1883
Name of vessel. [...] Wiarton Belle [...] Remarks. [...] fishboat
1924
The Benefactors. The amending resolution of prepared feeds came from an Independent, [...]: that on farm machinery from the Leader of the Progressives, Robert Forke, and that on the fish-boat engines from the Acting Minister of Finance himself.
1945
TWO MEN escaped death by drowning in a coast storm when they leaped to safety from this small fishboat as it foundered at Grief Point, about ten miles north of Stillwater.
1961
The third man on the fishboat was just a young fellow. Up at Flores Island he had come down to the float with his gear all stowed in a duffel bag and asked the skipper to take him down to Port Alberni.
1980
It was given in 1970 when a ship went down in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of six lives and when a commercial vessel that went to her help was also lost with its captain and three-man crew. It is given every day a merchantman or a fishboat enters our waters, or an aircraft crosses our tundra.
1996
The fishermen's union called the 1996 Alaska quota "the height of hypocrisy" while a spokesperson for fishboat owners said the Alaskans "are continuing to thumb their noses at us."
2001
The fishboat, Patrick Joseph, is seen through a lobster trap opening in the small fishing community of Petty Harbour, outside St. John's, Newfoundland.
2005
During the 1930s, he watched small commercial fish boats chugging away from their berths in False Creek.
2014
Some of the more successful schoolmates were the ones who dropped out and bought a logging truck/backhoe/fish boat and got to work. All you needed was to turn up at a logging camp on Monday morning with cork boots and a hardhat and you were working that day.

References

  • COD-2
  • Dollinger (2015b)

Images

Chart 1: Regional Domain Search, 5 Oct. 2012

Chart 1: Regional Domain Search, 5 Oct. 2012

Chart 2: Internet Domain Search, 10 Oct. 2012

Chart 2: Internet Domain Search, 10 Oct. 2012