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BOAT, n. 1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat,lanch, barge, pinnace,jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat,perogue, &c.2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. &c.BOAT, v.t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.
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BOAT, n. 1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat,lanch, barge, pinnace,jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat,perogue, &c.2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. &c.BOAT, v.t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake. | BOAT, n. [Sax. bat; Sw. bat; Dan. baad; W. bâd; Ir. bad; D. boot; G. bot, a boat; It. dim. battello, a little boat, whence Fr. bateau; Sp. bote, a boat.]- A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names; as, long-boat, lanch, barge, pinnace, jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat, perogue, &c.
- A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat, &c. – Johnson.
BOAT, v.t.To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake. – Rep. on Canals. Ash. | Boat
- A small open vessel, or water craft, usually
moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
- To transport in a boat] as, to
boat goods.
- To go or row in a
boat.
- 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.
- To place in a boat; as, to boat
oars.
- A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling
a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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Boat BOAT, noun 1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat, lanch, barge, pinnace, jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat, perogue, etc. 2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat. etc. BOAT, verb transitive To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.
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