different between boat vs rowlock
boat
English
Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English b?t (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *bait? (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /b??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- (General American) enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bo?t/
Noun
boat (plural boats)
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
Usage notes
- There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).
Synonyms
- (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Esperanto: boato
- Dhivehi: ????? (b??u)
- Fijian: boto
- Hijazi Arabic: ???? (b?t)
- Japanese: ??? (b?to)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
- Sinhalese: ???????? (b???uwa)
- Swahili: boti
- Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
- Tahitian: poti
- Tok Pisin: bot
See also
- Category:Watercraft
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
- (intransitive) To travel by boat.
- (transitive) To transport in a boat.
- to boat goods
- (transitive) To place in a boat.
- to boat oars
Translations
Anagrams
- Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa
Finnish
Noun
boat
- nominative plural of boa
Anagrams
- abot
Latin
Verb
boat
- third-person singular present active indicative of bo?
Malay
Alternative forms
- buat
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buat/
- Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at
Verb
boat (1701, used in the form berboat)
- Obsolete form of buat.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo??t/
Noun
boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)
- boat
Derived terms
- stoomboat
- ûnderseeboat
Further reading
- “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
boat From the web:
- what boat did the pilgrims sail on
- what boat sank on deadliest catch
- what boat was christopher columbus on
- what boat saved the titanic
- what boat does dexter have
- what boat should i buy
- what boat did tom brady buy
- what boat blew up on the crown
rowlock
English
Alternative forms
- rollock, rullock
Etymology
Probably from Old English ?rl?c, equivalent to oar + lock.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) enPR: r?'l?k, IPA(key): /???l?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?'l?k, IPA(key): /???l?k/
- (US) enPR: rä'l?k, IPA(key): /???l?k/
Noun
rowlock (plural rowlocks)
- (nautical, chiefly Britain) a pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock (mostly US).
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 8,
- Everything smelled salt and there was no noise except the swishing of water and the clop-clop of water against the sides and the splash of the oars and the jolting noise of the rowlocks.
- Synonyms: oarlock, thole, tholepin, thowel
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
Translations
References
- “rowlock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
rowlock From the web:
you may also like
- boat vs rowlock
- outrigger vs rowlock
- gunwale vs rowlock
- pivot vs rowlock
- rowlock vs loom
- terms vs ichthyocolla
- fish vs ichthyocolla
- sound vs ichthyocolla
- ichthyocolla vs ichthyocol
- terms vs clechy
- clechy vs lechy
- codpiece vs codpieced
- vonk vs codpiece
- merkin vs codpiece
- armor vs codpiece
- genital vs codpiece
- plate vs codpiece
- conspicuous vs codpiece
- preshown vs preshow
- rethrew vs rethrow