Boat
Boat (bōt) , noun
[Old English boot, bat, Anglo-Saxon bāt; akin to Icelandic bātr, Swedish båt, Danish baad, Dutch & German boot. Compare Bateau.]
1.
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
2.
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.
3.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
Collocations (4)
Advice boat , See under Advice.
Boat hook (Nautical) , an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. — Totten
Boat rope , a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.
In the same boat , in the same situation or predicament. [Colloquial] — F. W. Newman
Boat (bōt) , transitive verb
1.
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
2.
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
Collocations (1)
To boat the oars , See under Oar.
Boat , intransitive verb
To go or row in a boat.
I boated over, ran my craft aground.