fishing boat

collocation in English

meaningsoffishingandboat

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fishing
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/
the sport or job of ...
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boat
noun[C]
uk
/bəʊt/us
/boʊt/
a small vehicle for travelling ...
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(Definition offishingandboatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffishing boat

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Mail was entrusted to afishingboat, which also provided fresh fish.
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For example, of two neighbors, one may spend the entire day working in a nail factory while the other may spend the entire day working on afishingboat.
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The figures for fish caught byfishingboatin the sea are estimates of the number caught by drift net.
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The lady who sold herfishingboatsold it because there are no bottom fish.
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The system is against the young man who wants to operate afishingboat.
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Is there to be any definition of an inshorefishingboat, because this seems to be the point on which the whole issue hinges?
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Lastly, we come to the proportion of any debts secured on a trawler orfishingboator its gear.
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Thefishingboatbuilding industry has been going through a difficult period in recent years.
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In the past, it was a day for celebration, which we all joined in, when a new up-to-datefishingboatfirst came into service.
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Then, still on the stretcher, the patient was transferred to a rowing boat, and taken out to a largefishingboat.
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There are plenty of powers to detain afishingboatin port, to prevent it from taking to sea until the documents can be examined.
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I believe that such powers are used sparingly and only where circumstances demand, particularly in the case of the tying up of afishingboat.
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It is that the man who has also a deep seafishingboatand the inshore fleet gets nothing.
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If the order is passed, each licence will stipulate the number of half days which afishingboatwill be allowed to spend at sea.
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Such orders can prohibit all fishing, fishing for particular species, by particular methods, from specified descriptions offishingboator any combination of these.
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I have received one representation from thefishingboatbuilding industry.
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I should think that a glider is as much a craft of the air as a littlefishingboatis a craft of the sea.
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My point relates to a missingfishingboatwith four fishermen.
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No oil contract work is being allowed when afishingboatis tied up.
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