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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: a fishing boat.
3.
a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation.
4.
a ship.
5.
EXPANDa vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.
6.
a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat.
7.
COLLAPSEEcclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.
verb (used without object)
8.
to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames.
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verb (used with object)
Idioms9.
to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay.
10.
to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8).
11.
in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat.
12.
miss the boat, Informal.
a.
to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college.
b.
to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation.
13.
rock the boat. rock2 (def. 15).
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Word Origin & History
boat
O.E. bat "boat, ship, vessel," from P.Gmc. *bait- (cf. O.N. batr, Du. boot, Ger. Boot), possibly from PIE base *bheid- "to split" (see fissure), with the sense of making a boat by hollowing out a tree trunk; or it may be an extension of the name for some part of a ship.
EXPAND French bateau "boat" is from O.E. or O.N.
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