'Chebec' definitions:
Definition of 'Chebec'
From: GCIDE
- Chebec \Che*bec"\, n. [Named from its note.] (Zool.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'chebec'
From: GCIDE
- Chebacco \Che*bac"co\, n. [From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built.] (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]