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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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, 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, v.t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small vessel for travel on water
2: a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce [syn: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat, boat] v
1: ride in a boat on water

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English boot, from Old English b?t; akin to Old Norse beit boat Date: before 12th century 1. a. a small vessel for travel on water b. ship 2. a boat-shaped container, utensil, or device <a gravy boat> <a laboratory boat> • boatful noun • boatlike adjective II. verb Date: 1613 transitive verb to place in or bring into a boat intransitive verb to go by boat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a small vessel propelled on water by an engine, oars, or sails. 2 (in general use) a ship of any size. 3 an elongated boat-shaped jug used for holding sauce etc. --v.intr. travel or go in a boat, esp. for pleasure. Phrases and idioms: boat-hook a long pole with a hook and a spike at one end, for moving boats. boat-house a shed at the edge of a river, lake, etc., for housing boats. boat people refugees who have left a country by sea. boat race a race between rowing crews, esp. (Boat Race) the one between Oxford and Cambridge. boat-train a train scheduled to meet or go on a boat. in the same boat sharing the same adverse circumstances. push the boat out colloq. celebrate lavishly. Derivatives: boatful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: OE bat f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boat 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boat Boat, v. i. To go or row in a boat. I boated over, ran my craft aground. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boat 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(boats) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A boat is something in which people can travel across water. One of the best ways to see the area is in a small boat... The island may be reached by boat from the mainland. N-COUNT: also by N 2. You can refer to a passenger ship as a boat. When the boat reached Cape Town, we said a temporary goodbye. N-COUNT 3. see also gravy boat, rowing boat 4. If you say that someone has missed the boat, you mean that they have missed an opportunity and may not get another. PHRASE: V inflects 5. If you push the boat out, you spend a lot of money on something, especially in order to celebrate. (BRIT) I earn enough to push the boat out now and again. PHRASE: V inflects 6. If you say that someone is rocking the boat, you mean that they are upsetting a calm situation and causing trouble. I said I didn't want to rock the boat in any way. PHRASE: V inflects 7. If two or more people are in the same boat, they are in the same unpleasant situation. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bot.

See SHIPS AND BOATS.

Moby Thesaurus

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