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Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release..

Lode-ship :: Lode-ship (n.) An old name for a pilot boat.

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..

Boatable :: Boatable (a.) Such as can be transported in a boat.

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

Land :: Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

Lap :: Lap (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap..

Patela :: Patela (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

Flute :: Flute (n.) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Cot :: Cot (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat..

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

Boatmen :: Boatmen (pl. ) of Boatma.

Lighter :: Lighter (n.) A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery..

Kedge :: Kedge (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it..

Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..

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

Wafter :: Wafter (n.) A boat for passage.

Sculler :: Sculler (n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars..

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