Boat

Boat - Other Definitions

• (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
  
  
• (n.) 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.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
  
  
• (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
  
  
• (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
  
  
• (v. i.) To go or row in a 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.
  
  
• shell () A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.
  
  
• shell () A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Boat