fishing vessel

1. 1.

   a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive

   Synonymsfishing boatfishing smack

   Broadervessel

   Narrowertrawler

Questions about fishing vessel

What does fishing vessel mean?

fishing vessel means "a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive".

What is another word for fishing vessel?

Close synonyms include fishing boat, fishing smack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fishing vessel a common word?

fishing vessel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.