Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.
Do you need
volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?
|
|
Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.
|
|
Click here and add this page to your favorites!
|
Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU |
|
|
SMACK , a general term
vessel , sailing under various rigs and used principally for fishing. The word, like so many sea terms, was borrowed from the Dutch, where smak, earlier smacke, is the name of a coasting
vessel ; it is generally taken as a corruption of snack, cf. Swed. sndcka, Dan. snackke, a small sailing-vessel, and is to be referred to the root seen in " snake," " snail," the original
taste , and"smack," a smart sounding blow
sound
case
languages
languages
taste ," though no doubt confused owing to the sense of smacking the lips.End of Article: SMACK If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/SIV_SOU/SMACK.html"> SMACK </a> |
|
|
(Previous) SLYPE |
(Next) SMALL INTESTINE |
|
Sponsored Advertisements