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One who rows at the bow of a boat.

The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.

A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.

See Bumboat. Carlyle.

he main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]

A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

-- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before lettin…

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

s incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris). -- Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. -- Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of butter; -- called also butter stamp. Locke. -- Butter tooth…

A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

ale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team. A trainband captain eke was he. Cowper. The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards. Arbuthnot.

A small fishing boat used on the French coast.