boat : Idioms & Phrases

• a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.

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• noun a ship designed to transport bananas
  

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• noun carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs
  water boatman.
  

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Boat" bug`

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1. (Zoöl.) 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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• noun club that promotes and supports yachting and boating
  yacht club.
  

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• noun the upper deck on which lifeboats are stored
  

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• noun pole-handled hook used to pull or push boats
  

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• (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten.

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• noun a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
  paddle.
  

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• noun a race between people rowing or driving boats
  

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• noun the sport of racing boats
  

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• a rope for fastening a boat; usually called a painter.

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Boat" shell`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck. (b) A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.

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• noun a train taking passengers to or from a port
  

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• noun a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning
  

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• noun tropical American heron related to night herons
  broadbill; boatbill; Cochlearius cochlearius.
  

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• verb participate in a boat race
  

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• adjective satellite having a concave shape like a boat
  

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Boat"-shaped` adjective

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1. (Bot.) See Cymbiform.

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Boat"-tail` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

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• a small vessel for holding melted butter at table.

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• noun a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals
  canal boat; narrowboat.
  

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• a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal.

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• noun a cargo ship for the transport of livestock
  cattleship.
  

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• a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc.

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• a mail boat. Percy Smith.

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• a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat.

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• a boat of light draught used in marshes.

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• noun a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive
  fishing vessel; fishing smack.
  

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• noun a large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons
  

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• a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc.

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• noun a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
  gravy holder; sauceboat; boat.
  

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• noun a boat that is on guard duty (as in a harbor) around a fleet of warships
  

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• . (a) A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout. (b) A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations.

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Hatch"-boat` noun

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1. (Naut.) A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches; -- used mostly in the fisheries.

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• a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses.

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• a covered boat used as a dwelling.

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• . (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.

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• in the same situation or predicament. Colloq. F. W. Newman.

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• noun a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work
  jolly.
  

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Jol"ly-boat` noun

Etymology

A corruption of Dan. jolle yawl, or of D. jol yawl + E. boat. See Yawl the boat.

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1. (Naut.) A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.

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• . (a) A covered freight boat, with a keel, but no sails, used on Western rivers . U. S. (b) A low, flat-bottomed freight boat. See Keel, n., 3.

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• a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.

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Light"-boat` noun

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1. Light-ship.

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• noun a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes
  mackinaw.
  

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• noun a boat for carrying mail
  mail boat; packet; mailboat.
  

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• a boat that carries the mail.

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Ma*soo"la boat`

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1. . 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. Written also masula, masulah, etc.

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Mas*soo"la boat`

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1. See Masoola boat.

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Ma*su"la boat`

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1. Same as Masoola boat.

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• . (Naut.) (a) A small boat used in docks . (b) A half-decked boat used on the River Thames.

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• (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch.

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• noun a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat
  mosquito craft; motor torpedo boat; mosquito boat.
  

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• noun a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat
  mosquito craft; motor torpedo boat; mosquito boat.
  

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• a large flatboat used in deredging.

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• noun a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals
  canal boat; narrowboat.
  

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• noun a boat for carrying mail
  mail boat; packet; mailboat.
  

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• . See Packet, n., 2.

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• (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper.

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• (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat.

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• noun a vessel assigned to patrol an area
  patrol ship.
  

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• a fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers.

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• noun a boat serving as a picket
  

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• noun a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships
  

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• a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels.

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• noun a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board
  pleasure craft; cruiser; cabin cruiser.
  

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• noun a boat used by harbor police
  

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• noun a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat
  mosquito craft; motor torpedo boat; mosquito boat.
  

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• (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter.

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• noun a boat propelled by oarsmen and designed for racing
  

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• noun a boat used on rivers or to ply a river
  

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• noun a rowboat
  

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• noun a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast
  sailboat.
  

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• noun a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas
  

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• a boat specially constructed to carry and pay out a seine.

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• noun a boat for communication between ship and shore
  tender; pinnace; cutter.
  

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• noun a boat that is small
  

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• a steamboat fitted with apparatus for removing snags and other obstructions in navigable streams. U.S.

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• (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth.

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• to cease rowing, and lay the oars in the boat.

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• (Naut.), to prevent its running against anything with too much violence.

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• noun small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters
  

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• a vessel adapted for carrying, launching, operating, or otherwise making use of, torpedoes against an enemy's ship. Espec., a small, fast boat with tubes for launching torpedoes

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• noun small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats
  

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• (Naut.), a vessel whose deck and upper works rest on two parallel hulls.

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• noun a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
  submarine; sub; pigboat.
  

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U"na boat`

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1. (Naut.) The English name for a catboat; -- so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England. D. Kemp.

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• a kind of boat moored at the bank of a river, and used for a wharf, in places where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. U. S. Bartlett.

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• a boat with wheels, to be used either on water or upon inclined planes or railways.

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