Noun

Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie .

In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.

He brought this pair of sharpies , the Lucia'' and the ''Ella , to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat.

The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.

On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies'. The earliest ' sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.

It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies', but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. ' Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.

My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie .

The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie' hang-out.' Sharpies were all deep drinkers.