English

lobsterboat

From lobster + boat.

A compound of lobster + boat

Old English loppestre

Middle English loppestere ‘a lobster or crayfish’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ‘to break’

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Proto-Germanic *baitaz ‘boat’

Proto-West Germanic *bait ‘boat’

Old English bāt

Middle English bot

English boat

Today it means

noun A boat used for catching lobsters.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / lobsterboat