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A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

t off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To ad…

An ancient English fishing boat.

e slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting. -- Quarter day, a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on whi…

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. Richardson.

A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.

Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

sh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. Prior.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

g as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.…

move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.

To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

e. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat. The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls. Macaulay.

A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]