cartel n also cartail*, carteel. Cp OED ~ sb 3 b, 5 ~ ship [vessel used to exchange prisoners]. Attrib cartel boat [phonetics unavailable], ~ bully: large boat serving as an ancillary craft in the fishery, esp in carrying fish; cp BARGE.
   1909 BROWNE 218 'Carteel-boats' (fish-barges) were arriving hourly, laden to the gunwales with fish. 1937 DEVINE 13 ~ A lighter used to take fish to a loading vessel. T 80/3-64 You always have a cartail boat, and the man that go into her, that was his work, bring fish from the cod-bag. He would have two splitters to keep going on two tables. A cartail boat come from the cod-seine boat. Of course a cod-seine would be hauled in one boat, and the other boat would dip the fish. They'd go [away] with the fish in that boat. P 245-70 Another boat used for transporting fish from seine to shore or schooner was a cartail bully. 1974 SQUIRE 73 One of the toughest jobs in cod-seine fishing is to operate the cartel bully which is what we called the boat used to bring fish from the seine to the schooner. This boat was about twenty-five feet long, fitted with sails; but when there was no wind, it would have to be propelled with a long sweep pushed through a hole in the stern.

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