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A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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  1. n. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
  4. v. t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
  5. v. t. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
  6. v. i. To go or row in a boat.
  7. n. a small vessel for travel on water
  8. n. a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
  9. v. ride in a boat on water
  10. To go or row in a boat.I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.
  11. v:2/n:98 n. a small vessel for travel on water v. ride in a boat on water