Definitions for boat

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boat boat

Spelling: [boht]

IPA: /boʊt/

Boat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in boat (abot).

Definitions for boat

noun

1. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
2. a small ship, generally for specialized use:
3. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat:
4. a ship.
5. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.
6. a serving dish resembling a boat:
7. Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.

Idioms

1. in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems:
2. miss the boat, Informal. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: to miss the point of; fail to understand:
3. rock the boat. rock2 (def 17).

verb (used with object)

1. to transport in a boat:
2. to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship1 (def 10).

verb (used without object)

1. to go in a boat:

Origin of boat

before 900; Middle English boot (noun), Old English bāt; cognate with Old Norse beit

Examples for boat

I can't conceive how such damage could have happened to the boat.

My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.

He quickly turned the boat to the shore, and the stranger jumped on board.

Translators—many of whom came by boat themselves—work through the crowds with Italian authorities to take down names and details.

The boat he supposed to belong to Robert, and he was determined to spoil it.

But The STAR, the brainchild of Russian-born boat designer Igor Lobanov, has not been built yet.

The only way to get here is by plane or boat, so most supplies are flown in.

His rival could no longer enjoy the boat which he had envied him.

They can hear the sound of his boat's motor, growing louder as it comes over the horizon.

Your brother was foolish enough to leave his boat in Rushton's care.