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Boat

noun

A small vessel for travel on water.

A dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce. Synonyms: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat.

verb

(past & past part. boated; pres. part. boating)

Ride in a boat on water.

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... had displayed an aptitude for mechanical tools and inventions and especially for boat-making. Shipbuilding and ship- sailing became his favorite pastimes. When he was barely twenty-one, he launched at Archangel, on the ice-bound White Sea, a ship which he had built with his own hands. Now in 1696, being sole tsar at the age of twenty-four, he fitted ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... harbors: none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one small boat landing area along the middle of the ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... made for the mattresses that lie in the boat at the ship's side; and as the night is delightfully calm, many fair ladies and worthy men determine to couch on deck for the night. The proceedings of the former, especially if they be young and pretty, the philosopher ...

— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray

... soyle, so light; Him, Hollands warmer Climate doth invite: Another differs, and doth cry Ausonia's clearer Suns please mee. In vaine all this, if faithfull sicknesses Wait close behind; if secret griefes ne're cease, All's one, whether in Chariot Thou goest, or in Venetian boat. ...

— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski

... personage in Babylonian mythology, even though she did not figure largely in the cult. She appears in the magical texts quite frequently at the side of Ea. In a hymn[147] where a description occurs of the boat containing Ea, Damkina his wife, and Marduk their son, together with the ferryman and some other personages sailing across the ocean, we may see traces of the process of symbolization to which the old ...

— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow

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