About The Word Boat
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Boat Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Boat?
[n] a small vessel for travel on water
[n] a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce [v] ride in a boat on water Synonyms | Synonyms for Boat: gravy boat | sauceboat Related Terms | Find terms related to Boat: almadia | argosy | ark | auto | autocar | automobile | auxiliary | barge | bark | bottom | bucket | buggy | bus | buss | canoe | car | cargo boat | carry sail | cart | cat | catamaran | circumnavigate | coach | coast | cockle | cockleshell | cog | coracle | craft | crate | cross | cruise | cruiser | cutter | dinghy | dispatch boat | dray | drifter | dugout | ferry | ferryboat | fishing boat | float | funny | galley | gig | glider | go by ship | go on shipboard | go to sea | gondola | haul | heap | hooker | houseboat | hoy | hulk | hull | hydrofoil | hydroplane | jalopy | jolly | jolly boat | kayak | keel | knockabout | launch | leviathan | lifeboat | lighter | longboat | machine | mailer | make a passage | motor | motor vehicle | motorboat | motorcar | motorized vehicle | navigate | outboard | outrigger canoe | packet | pilot | pilot boat | pinnace | piragua | pirogue | ply | pontoon | post boat | pram | punt | racer | racing shell | raft | randan | row | rowboat | rowing boat | run | runabout | sail | sail round | sail the sea | sailboat | sampan | scooter | scow | scull | seafare | shallop | shell | ship | showboat | skiff | sled | sledge | small boat | sneakbox | speedboat | steam | steamboat | surfboat | take a voyage | towboat | traverse | trawlboat | trawler | trimaran | trow | truck | tub | tug | tugboat | van | vessel | voiture | voyage | wagon | wanigan | watercraft | whaleboat | whale-gig | wheelbarrow | wheels | wherry | wreck | yacht | yawl | yawl boat See Also | ark | barge | boat whistle | bumboat | canal boat | canoe | cutter | dish | ferry | ferryboat | fireboat | flatboat | gondola | guard boat | gunboat | hoy | junk | kayak | lighter | longboat | lugger | mackinaw | Mackinaw boat | mail boat | mailboat | motorboat | narrowboat | packet | packet boat | paddle | pilot boat | pinnace | police boat | powerboat | punt | ride | river boat | row | sail | scow | sea boat | sharpie | ship's boat | small boat | steamboat | surfboat | tender | towboat | tower | tug | tugboat | vessel | watercraft | yacht Boat In Webster's Dictionary \Boat\, n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to Icel.
b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, 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.
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. --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\ (b[=o]t), v. t. [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\, v. i. To go or row in a boat. I boated over, ran my craft aground. --Tennyson. |
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