coble

noun

Definition of coblenext
as in whaler

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coble
  1. whaler
  2. whaleboat
  3. ferry
  4. lugger
  5. workboat
  6. ferryboat
  7. shrimper
  8. seiner
Noun
  • In 1855, the desk was recovered by an American whaler and Congress appropriated funding to refit the ship that the desk was on to England, as a gift to Queen Victoria.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.
    — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of whaler
Noun
  • In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
Definition of whaleboat
Noun
  • The half-hour ferry ride there from the Chinese territory’s main island was bustling with day trippers.
    — Erin Mendell, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of ferry
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    — Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    — Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Definition of lugger
Noun
  • Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.
    — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
Definition of workboat
Noun
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
  • This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of ferryboat
Noun
  • The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of shrimper
Noun
  • Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023
Definition of seiner
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“Coble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coble. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.

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