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Pole :: Pole (v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat..

Scow :: Scow (n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends..

Heel :: Heel (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it..

Catboat :: Catboat (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix..

Pirogue :: Pirogue (n.) A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat..

Galley :: Galley (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure..

Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.

Chebacco :: Chebacco (n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.

Ferry :: Ferry (v. i.) To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.

Tonnage :: Tonnage (n.) The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

Sponson :: Sponson (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat..

Scull :: Scull (v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.

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..

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

Passager :: Passager (n.) A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

Live :: Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm..

Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam)..

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..

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

Rove :: Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

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