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drift boat Maritimes 
a small fishing boat used in tending drift nets.
- 1879 The drift boats are doing extremely well, some of the boats taking as high as five or six hundred [shad] a night.
- 1953 Where others have turned to using "drift" boats to tend their nets, he alone fishes with horse and ladder.
- 1879 The drift boats are doing extremely well, some of the boats taking as high as five or six hundred [shad] a night.