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Boatful :: Boatful (n.) The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

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..

Jolly-boat :: Jolly-boat (n.) A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

Dugout :: Dugout (n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.

Cockswain :: Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..

Row :: Row (v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge..

Boson :: Boson (n.) See Boatswain.

Coble :: Coble (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England..

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..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat..

Grapnel :: Grapnel (n.) A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel..

Flat-bottomed :: Flat-bottomed (a.) Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat..

Pleyt :: Pleyt (n.) An old term for a river boat.

Monoxylon :: Monoxylon (n.) A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber.

Water Carriage :: Water carriage () A vessel or boat.

Embark :: Embark (v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon..

Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..

Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.

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..

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