| 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. |
n. |
| Boat |
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat. |
n. |
| Boat |
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. |
v. t. |
| Boat |
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. |
v. t. |
| Boat |
To go or row in a boat. |
v. i. |
| 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. |
a. |
| 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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| Boat-tail |
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. |
n. |
| 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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| Una boat |
The English name for a catboat; -- so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England. |
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| Hatch |
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. |
v. t. |
| Hatch |
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. |
v. t. |
| Hatch |
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. |
v. t. |
| Hatch |
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. |
v. t. |
| Hatch |
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. |
v. i. |