Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinkeys
Literary usage of Pinkeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905 by Francis Byron Greene (1906)
"They were all pinkeys at that date. The Ocean, sixty tons, owned by Capt.
John Hodgdon, and the Albatross, seventy-two tons, owned by John M. McFar- land, ..."
2. Gleanings from the Sea: Showing the Pleasures, Pains and Penalties of Life by Joseph Warren Smith (1887)
"... their fleet was composed of pinkeys ["chebacco boats," so-called]. These getting
out of fashion, ..."
3. The Friend (1867)
"A score of fishing smacks, most of them pinks, or pinkeys (so called on account
of their high pointed sterns) with their white sails spread, ..."
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