Boat-boats are boats

This boat for many people of the Soviet and post-Soviet era is known for the popular song about Kostya the sailor. There the seaman-Sonia is docking to the shore just a fishing boat. But, like many concepts of our native language, this word has several meanings. We will tell more in our next material.

Boat-boats are boats

As already mentioned, in the first place these are not too large boats. According to many dictionaries and other sources, barges are self-propelled vessels that were intended for transportation in the roadstead, port or harbor. They could be transported as passengers, for example, a crew to their ship, as well as loads, for example, anchors. In Italian, the word for a similar consonance means "big boat", also in the Netherlands. More specifically: barges are multi-bucket (from 14 to 22) boats, more than 12 meters long, with a displacement of up to five tons, two-masted.

As they say in Odessa ...

In the Odessa tradition of navigation there are also names for boats: yala and longboat, shaland and felucca. These names came from different languages of the world. But both in the Black Sea region and in the Azov Sea region have adapted gradually for local conditions. How the terms run from one locality to another, from century to century, can be traced to this concept. Barkasses are, you might say, an invention of the Dutch. In the strong medieval fleets they were the longest high-speed sailing boats on 2 masts, with 22 oars.

In the Odessa pre-revolutionary port realities, longboats are the main assistants to unloading on raids. There were such ships of much greater volume than the Dutch boats. And if necessary, they could take a cargo of just under 15 tons on board, then take it to the port and unload it. It was a small fleet in harbors and a port.

Fishing

Later there were also Black Sea boats on which they went out to fish. These longboats plowed the Black Sea, endowing consumers with bullhead, mullet, tullet. Who from Odessa did not eat fish caught by fishermen. Large reprocessing shops operated throughout the Black Sea coast from the Danube to the strait in Kerch. A hereditary shipbuilders provided barges for fishermen of the Black Sea coast. Of course, in modern conditions of industrial fishing, the longboat lost its importance, but remained in history as the most used ship at the beginning of the last century.

Criminal jargon

And this term in the language of crime means a high fence of the colony, surrounded by barbed wire. In the so-called hair dryer - the language is not for someone else's ears - it could also mean an attic and a zone that is forbidden for access.