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chebec

Chebacco \Che*bac"co\, n. [From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built.] (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
--Bartlett.

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chebec

Etymology 1 n. (context nautical English) (alternative form of chebacco English) Etymology 2

n. A small American bird (''(taxlink Empidonax minimus species noshow=1)); the least flycatcher.