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Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat.

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast..

Steering :: Steerer (n.) One who steers; as, a boat steerer..

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch..

Tanka :: Tanka (n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..

Boat :: Boat (n.) 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..

Barge :: Barge (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat..

Pungy :: Pungy (n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails..

Cobble :: Cobble (n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.

Dory :: Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides..

Bumboat :: Bumboat (n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore..

Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..

Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.

Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..

Papboat :: Papboat (n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.

Disembark :: Disembark (v. i.) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.

Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.

Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..

Boatman :: Boatman (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

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