bateau n also batteau. Cp DC ~ 1 (1760-1840). Type of fishing boat rigged with a lug-sail, formerly used on the north-east coast of Newfoundland and on the Labrador.
   [1773] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 277 After ... buying a French batteau and two hundred weight of whalebone ... I returned home. 1936 SMITH 33 They left Brigus about the 10th of June and arrived at Quirpon, French shore, in good time. There Mr Smith bought ten bateaux, or fishing boats, with a big round O on each bow, and a big lugger sail made in French style. T 398-67 They used to look after their salt, and their seine boats and their bateaus. 1967 READER 52 An old 'bateau' (boat) which was also unearthed, was found to be in a remarkable state of preservation.

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