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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Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel..
Crew :: Crew (n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew..
Sailboat :: Sailboat (n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
Boat-tail :: Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States..
Dugout :: Dugout (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
Galley :: Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure..
Tonnage :: Tonnage (n.) The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.
Budgerow :: budgerow (n.) A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges..
Boat :: Boat (v. i.) To go or row in a boat.
Pontoon :: Pontoon (n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops..
Grouser :: Grouser (n.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage..
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..
Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..
Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages..
Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught..
Boat Shell :: Boat shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
Back :: Back (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1..
Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
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