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Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.

Advice boat. See under Advice. -- Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. -- Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. -- In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.

Boat (bt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.] 1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.

To boat the oars. See under Oar.

Boat, v. i. To go or row in a boat.

I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.

Boat"a*ble (&?;), a. 1. Such as can be transported in a boat.

2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft.

The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

Boat"age (&?;), n. Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

Boat"bill` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) 1. A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

2. A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

Boat" bug` (&?;). (Zoöl.) An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

Boat"ful (&?;), n.; pl. Boatfuls. The quantity or amount that fills a boat.

Boat"house` (&?;), n. A house for sheltering boats.

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

Boat"ing, n. 1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Bo*a"tion (&?;), n. [L. boatus, fr. boare to roar.] A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.]

The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

Boat"man (&?;), n.; pl. Boatmen (&?;). 1. A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.

2. (Zoöl.) A boat bug. See Boat bug.

Boat"man*ship, n. The art of managing a boat.

Boat"-shaped` (&?;), a. (Bot.) See Cymbiform.

Boat" shell` (&?;). (Zoöl.) (a) A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck. (b) A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.

Boats"man (&?;), n. A boatman. [Archaic]