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    Boat , n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. bāt; akin to Icel. bātr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]
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    1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
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      ☞ Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
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    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.
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    3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
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      ☞ 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.
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      Advice boat. See under Advice. -- Boat hook (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. -- Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. -- In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.]
      F. W. Newman.

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    Boat , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]
    1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
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    2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
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      To boat the oars. See under Oar.
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    Boat, v. i. To go or row in a boat.
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    I boated over, ran my craft aground.
    Tennyson.

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