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A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.

risdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. -- Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill. -- Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in m…

A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.

The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.

road stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast power boats. It prevents settling in the water at high speed.

protect the torpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarine torpedo boats they are in the bow.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

g a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.

The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. -- Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line…

the cutwater near the figurehead. -- Trail net, a net that is trailed or drawn behind a boat. Wright.

repare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

very long and slender. The yellow-billed tropic bird. Phaëthon flavirostris (called also boatswain), is found on the Atlantic coast of America, and is common at the Bermudas, where it breeds.

A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.

Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.