Definition of boat

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Boat (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail..

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Cockleshell :: Cockleshell (n.) A light boat.
Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..
Grouser :: Grouser (n.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage..
Boatmen :: Boatmen (pl. ) of Boatma.
Stern :: Stern (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow..
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..
Passable :: Passable (a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats..
Boson :: Boson (n.) See Boatswain.
Water Boatman :: Water boatman () A boat bug.
Aviso :: Aviso (n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat..
Drover :: Drover (n.) A boat driven by the tide.
Steamboating :: Steamboating (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats..
Hook :: Hook (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A boat used by ships of war.
Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..
Guess Warp :: Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Shallop :: Shallop (n.) A boat.
Beach :: Beach (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship..
Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..
Waterboard :: Waterboard (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water..
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