Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabbarts
Literary usage of Gabbarts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scots Revised Reports, [Court of Session]: Faculty Collection, 1807-1825 by Scotland Court of Session (1905)
"... and from Glasgow to these ports, commodities are carried in lighters, or small
vessels fitted for such a navigation, which are called gabbarts, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"and declare that classical literature should form no part of her freight— that
it should be thrown overheard, and by mud-larks fished up into dirt-gabbarts. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"... vessels at the Broomielaw were gabbarts from the lochs within the Mull—when
cotton was an unknown word—when men had not dug for iron nor even for coal; ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"Less than 50 years ago gabbarts, and these only about 30 or 40 tons burthen,
could come up to the city; and Dr. Cleland recollects when for weeks together ..."
5. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"... I believe it does most places—we've a noble situation here, sir—a pretty river,
navigable quite up to the Broomielaw, for sloops, brigs, and gabbarts, ..."
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