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Jolly boat   /dʒˈɑli boʊt/   Listen
Jolly boat

noun
1.
A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work.  Synonym: jolly.






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"Jolly boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... and build a ship of his own? That was a gala, messmate! There was Charley, a little fat porpoise, as round as a nine-pounder, mounted on an eighteen gallon cask of the real Jamaica, lashed to a couple of oars, and riding astride, on his messmates' shoulders, up to the Point. Then such a jolly boat's crew attended him, rigged out with bran new slops, and shiners on their topmasts, with the Leander painted in front, and half a dozen fiddlers scraping away 'Jack's alive,' and all the girls decked out in their dancing dresses, with streamers flying about their top-gallants, and loose nettings ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle



Words linked to "Jolly boat" :   yawl, jolly



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