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pinnace

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pin·nace  (pns)
n.
1. A light boat propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a tender for merchant and war vessels.
2. Any of various kinds of ship's boats.
[French pinace, from Old French, probably from Old Spanish pinaza, from pino, pine tree, boat, from Latin pnus; see pei- in Indo-European roots.]
pinnace
Noun
a ship's boat [French pinace]
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Noun1.pinnacepinnace - a boat for communication between ship and shore
ship's boat, cutter, tender
boat - a small vessel for travel on water
gig - tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
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Captain Granet, Ralph promised that there should be a pinnace at number seven dock from one until three.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
The pinnace was then manned, and two of the partners, Mr.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
It was not the new panic amidships that froze my marrow; it was not that the pinnace hung perpendicularly by the fore-tackle, and had shot out those who had swarmed aboard her before she was lowered, as a cart shoots a load of bricks.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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