boat
Vessel for travelling by water.
Noun 4 meanings
Vessel for travelling by water.
“We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.”
A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.
“a stone boat; a gravy boat”
A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.
A car, especially a large or heavy one.
“Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled”
Verb 3 meanings
To travel by boat.
To transport in a boat.
“to boat goods”
To place in a boat.
Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin).
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BOAT at a glance
BOAT has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + A 1 + T 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,938 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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