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Western boat Nfld, Hist. 
a schooner-rigged vessel having a 40-50 foot keel and a 14-15 foot beam, used on the fishing banks.
- 1951 Western boats . . . Bateaux de la cote Ouest.
- 1958 George Harvey owned a fishing vessel of a fair size-one of the so-called "Western boats" of the period.
- 1966 [Old folk song] Take me back to my western boat, / Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's, / Where the hag-downs sail and fog-horns wail. . . .
- 1951 Western boats . . . Bateaux de la cote Ouest.