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Boat

Boat (boat)
n.((?))
Boat
[OE. boot, bat, AS. b1913 webster dictionaryt; akin to Icel. b1913 webster dictionarytr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. *** G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]

  1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

    &fist] Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.

  2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
  3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

    * Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.

    Advice boat. See under Advice. -- Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. -- Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. -- In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.

Boat

Boat (boat)
v. t.(b1913 webster dictionaryt)
Boat
[imp. *** p. p. Boated] p. pr. *** vb. n. Boating.]
  1. To transport in a boat] as, to boat goods.
  2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

    To boat the oars. See under Oar.

Boat

Boat (boat)
v. i.
Boat
  1. To go or row in a boat.

    I boated over, ran my craft aground.
    Tennyson.













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