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Yawl :: Yawl (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars..

Inshore :: Inshore (adv.) Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore..

Gig :: Gig (n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig..

Boat :: Boat (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods..

Shove :: Shove (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor..

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..

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..

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

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

Boatmanship :: Boatmanship (n.) The art of managing a boat.

Bump :: Bump (n.) The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

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..

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..

Bail :: Bail (v. t.) To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat..

Corocore :: Corocore (n.) A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) The tropic bird.

Portage :: Portage (v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters..

Boathouse :: Boathouse (n.) A house for sheltering boats.

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle..

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