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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..

Bunder :: Bunder (n.) A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

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..

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages..

Bowman :: Bowman (n.) The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

Bac :: Bac (n.) A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope..

Shove :: Shove (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off..

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.

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

Guest Rope :: Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.

Bungo :: Bungo (n.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States..

Scratch :: Scratch (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards..

Lower :: Lower (a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag..

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.

Oar :: Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom..

Thwart :: Thwart (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat..

Bow :: Bow (n.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

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

Skua :: Skua (n.) Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain..

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