BOAT
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Boat (b&ō;t), n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b&ā;t; akin to Icel. b&ā;tr, 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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&hand_; 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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&hand_; 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 (b&ō;t), 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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