n. [ OE. boot, bat, AS. bāt; akin to Icel. bātr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. Bateau. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Advice boat.
Boat hook (Naut.),
Boat rope,
In the same boat,
v. t.
To boat the oars.
v. i. To go or row in a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]
I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.)
(Zool.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus
n.;
n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]
Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.