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A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.

A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles, Peter boat, a fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. -- Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, forme…

ir approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going…

A man-of-war's boat. Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs. Shak.

A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat. [Written variously periauger, perogue, piragua, periagua, etc.]

An old term for a river boat.

To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

ng or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.] They are easily ported by boat into other shires. Fuller.

To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]

Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing cra…

A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel.

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.