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Webster 1913 Edition
Boat
Boat
(bōt)
, Noun.
1.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
☞ 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
The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; boat
, packet boat
, passage boat
, advice boat
, etc. 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
(bōt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Boated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Boating
.] 1.
To transport in a boat;
as, to
. boat
goodsBoat
,Verb.
I.
To go or row in a boat.
I
boated
over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
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, &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
,Verb.
T.