boat
A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
Example
“We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.”
Other meanings
A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
“He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.”
A kind of
- vessel
Kinds of boat
- lighter
- narrow boat
- ferry
- guard boat
- gunboat
- mail boat
- pilot boat
- sea boat
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "bāt".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “boat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.