Boat

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• boat

  A small open vessel, conducted on the water by rowing or sailing. The construction, machinery, and...

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• Boat bug

  ·- An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; — so called from swimming on its back, whi...

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• Boat shell

  ·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba. II. Boat shell ·- A marine gastropod of the genus Cr...

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• Boat-shaped

  ·adj ·see <<Cymbiform>>. ...

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• Boat-tail

  ·noun A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. ...

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• Flying boat

  ·add. ·- A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull. ...

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• Hatch-boat

  ·noun A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; — used mostly in the fisheries...

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• Jolly-boat

  ·noun A boat of medium size belonging to a ship. ...

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• Light-boat

  ·noun Light-ship. ...

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• Mackinaw boat

  ·add. ·- A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, use...

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• Masoola boat

  ·- A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of ...

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• Massoola boat

  ·- ·see Masoola boat. ...

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• Masula boat

  ·- ·same·as Masoola boat. ...

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• Una boat

  ·- The English name for a catboat; — so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this k...

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• Ferry boat

  (2 Sam. 19:18), some kind of boat for crossing the river which the men of Judah placed at the servic...

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• bum boat

  A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating ch...

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• chebacco boat

  Probably the same as the xebec of the Mediterranean. A description of fishing vessel employed in the...

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• advice-boat

  A small fast-sailing vessel in advance of a fleet, employed to carry intelligence with all possible ...

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• billy boat

  See billy boy ...

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• boat-buoys

  Means added to increase the buoyancy of life-boats, &c. ...

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• boat-chocks

  Clamps of wood upon which a boat rests when stowed on a vessel's deck. ...

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• boat-cloak

  A mantle for the officer going on duty; when left in the boat it is in the coxswain's charge. ...

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• boat-davit

  A curved piece of timber with a sheave at its outer end, which projects over the boat's stern, while...

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• boat-fast

  See painter. ...

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• boat-geer

  A general name for the rigging and furniture of a boat. ...

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• boat-hire

  Expenses for the use of shore-boats. ...

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• boat-hook

  An iron hook with a straight prong at its hinder part; it is fixed upon a pole, by the help of which...

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• boat-keeper

  One of the boat's crew who remains in charge of her during the absence of the others. In small vesse...

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• boat-nails

  Those supplied for the carpenter's use are of various lengths, generally rose-headed, square at the ...

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• boat-rope

  A separate rope veered to the boat to be towed at the ship's stern. ...

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• boat-skids

  Portable pieces of plank used to prevent chafing when a boat is hoisted or lowered. (See skids.) ...

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• bolt-boat

  An old term for a boat which makes good weather in a rough sea. ...

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• bum-boat

  A boat employed to carry provisions, vegetables, and small merchandise for sale to ships, either in ...

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• canal-boat

  A barge generally towed by horses, but furnished with a large square-sail for occasional use. ...

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• chebacco boat

  A description of fishing-vessel employed in the Newfoundland fisheries. It is probably named from Ch...

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• cock-boat

  A very small boat used on rivers or near the shore. Formerly the cock was the general name of a yawl...

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• crab-boat

  Resembles a large jolly-boat. ...

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• dawk-boat

  A boat for the conveyance of letters in India; dawk being the Hindostanee for mail. ...

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• dredger-boat

  One that uses the net so called, for turbots, soles, sandlings, &c. ...

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• fishing-boat

  A stout fishing-vessel with two lug-sails. ...

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• fly-boat

  A large flat-bottomed Dutch vessel, whose burden is generally from 300 to 600 tons. It is distinguis...

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• foot-boat

  A west-country term for a boat used solely to convey foot passengers. ...

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• guard-boat

  A boat appointed to row the rounds amongst the ships of war in any harbour, &c., to observe that the...

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• guinea-boat

  A fast-rowing galley, of former times, expressly built for smuggling gold across the Channel, in use...

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• gunning-boat

  , or gunning-shout. A light and narrow boat in which the fen-men pursue the flocks of wild-fowl. ...

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• haaf-boat

  One fitted for deep-water fishing. ...

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• hag-boat

  See heck-boat. ...

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• hatch-boat

  A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches. ...

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• heck-boat

  The old term for pinks. Latterly a clincher-built boat with covered fore-sheets, and one mast with a...

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• hog-boat

  See heck-boat. ...

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• house-boat

  One with a cabin; a coche d'eau. ...

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• ice-boat

  A peculiar track-schuyt for the Dutch canals in winter. ...

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• jolly-boat

  A smaller boat than the cutter, but likewise clincher-built. It is generally a hack boat for small w...

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• life-boat

  One of such peculiar construction that it cannot sink or be swamped. It is equipped for attending wh...

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• lobster-boat

  A bluff, clincher-built vessel, fitted with a well, to preserve the lobsters alive. ...

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• long boat

  Is carvel-built, full, flat, and high, and is usually the largest boat belonging to a ship, furnishe...

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• lug-boat

  The fine Deal boats which brave the severest weather; they are rigged as luggers, and dip the yards ...

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• mackerel-boat

  A stout clinch-worked vessel, with a large fore-sail, sprit-sail, and mizen. ...

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• monkey-boat

  A half-decked boat above-bridge on the Thames. ...

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• negro-boat

  See almadia. ...

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• passage-boat

  A small vessel employed in carrying persons or luggage from one port to another. Also, a ferry-boat....

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• peter-boat

  A fishing-boat of the Thames and Medway, so named after St. Peter, as the patron of fishermen, whose...

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• pitch-boat

  A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked. ...

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• quarter-boat

  Any boat is thus designated which is hung to davits over the ship's quarter. ...

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• rocket-boat

  Flat-bottomed boats, fitted with rocket-frames to fire Congreve rockets from, in naval bombardment. ...

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• sea-boat

  A good sea-boat implies any vessel adapted to bear the sea firmly and lively without labouring heavi...

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• stal-boat

  A peculiar fishing-boat, mentioned in statute 27 Eliz. c. 21. ...

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• surf-boat

  A peculiar kind of flat-bottomed boat, varying according to local exigencies, for landing men, or go...

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• team-boat

  A ferry-boat worked with horses by paddle-wheel propulsion. ...

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• tilt-boat

  One expressly fitted like a tilt-waggon, to preserve powder or other fragile stores from the weather...

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• tod-boat

  A broad flat Dutch fishing-boat. ...

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• track-boat

  [from the Dutch treck-schuyt]. A vessel used on a canal or narrow stream. ...

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• whale-boat

  A boat varying from 26 to 56 feet in length, and from 4 to 10 feet beam, sharp at both ends, and adm...

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• Torpedo-boat destroyer

  ·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...

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• boat the anchor

  Place the anchor in-board in the boat. ...

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• boat the oars

  Put them in their proper places fore and aft on the thwarts ready for use. ...

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• japanese whale-boat

  A long, open, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan. ...

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• trim the boat!

  The order to sit in the boat in such a manner as that she shall float upright. Also, to edge aft, so...

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• yarmouth herring-boat

  A clincher-built vessel with lug-sails, similar to the drift or mackerel boats. ...

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• ears of a boat

  The knee-pieces at the fore-part on the outside at the height of the gunwale. ...

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• moor the boat, to

  To fasten her with two ropes, so that the one shall counteract the other, and keep her in a steady p...

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• snake-boat of cochin

  See pamban manche ...

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• wind a boat, to

  To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.) ...

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• bundling things into a boat

  Loading it in a slovenly way. ...

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• fore-sheets of a boat

  The inner part of the bows, opposite to stern-sheets, fitted with gratings on which the bowman stand...

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• stroke-side of a boat

  That in which the after starboard rowlock is placed, or where the after oar is rowed if single-banke...

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• well-room of a boat

  The place in the bottom where the water lies, between the ceiling and the platform of the stern-shee...

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• row in the same boat, to

  To be of similar principles. ...

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