Definition of boat

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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..

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Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.
Cot :: Cot (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat..
Boatman :: Boatman (n.) A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
Hogchain :: Hogchain (n.) A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging..
Surfeit :: Surfboat (n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach..
Tug :: Tug (n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat..
Traffic :: Traffic (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried..
Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..
Swifter :: Swifter (n.) A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides..
Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..
Dump :: Dump (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc..
Boatmen :: Boatmen (pl. ) of Boatma.
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..
Dinghy :: Dinghy (n.) A ship's smallest boat.
Cymbiform :: Cymbiform (a.) Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses..
Bushwhacking :: Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream..
Boatwomen :: Boatwomen (pl. ) of Boatwoma.
Flyboat :: Flyboat (n.) A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
Boation :: Boation (n.) A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..
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