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Boat   /boʊt/   Listen
noun
Boat  n.  
1.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. Note: 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. Note: 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.
Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; usually called a painter.
In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. (Colloq.)


verb
Boat  v. t.  (past & past part. boated; pres. part. 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  v. i.  To go or row in a boat. "I boated over, ran my craft aground."





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"Boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... think none will allow, though that would be the way best to correct miscarriages; how then should it be thought convenient for them to do it alone. If children are not thought fit to help to guide the ship with the mariners, shall they be trusted so much as with a boat at sea alone. The thing in hand ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... any excitement or of any adventure on the steamboat from Baddeck to West Bay, the southern point of the Bras d'Or. Judging from the appearance of the boat, the dinner might have been an experiment, but we ran no risks. It was enough to sit on deck forward of the wheel-house, and absorb, by all the senses, the delicious day. With such weather perpetual and such scenery always ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... I don't know what more fool drivelin' they had, but they fin'ly comes away. Ally Bazan and me rounds 'em up and conducts 'em to the boat an' puts 'em to bed like as if they was little—or drunk, an' the next day—or next night, rather—about one o'clock, we slips the heel ropes and hobbles o' the schooner quiet as a mountain-lion stalking a buck, and catches the out-tide through the gate o' the bay. Lord, ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... thinking of, Bunny?" asked his father, as he steered the Spray to one side to get out of the way of a fishing boat and was coming in, to ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... bales—but wonder, Not anything of note: How should she, being merely A slender petal-boat?... But rated in the shipping: The ...
— Ships in Harbour • David Morton


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