Boat |
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. |
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Boat |
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. |
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Boat |
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. |
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Boat |
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. |
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Boat |
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. |
v. t. |
Boat |
To go or row in a boat. |
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Boat bug |
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman. |
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Boat-shaped |
See Cymbiform. |
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Boat shell |
A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck. |
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Boat shell |
A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba. |
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Masoola boat |
A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced. |
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Massoola boat |
See Masoola boat. |
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Masula boat |
Same as Masoola boat. |
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Racket-tail |
Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped. |
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Rat-tail |
Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File. |
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Rat-tail |
An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse. |
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Rat-tail |
The California chimaera. See Chimaera. |
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Rat-tail |
Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2. |
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Split-tail |
A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family. |
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Split-tail |
The pintail duck. |
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