chebaccoEtymologyFrom Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.chebacco means A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.nounA (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.“On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.”