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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
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trekschuit
English
Alternative forms
- trackschuyt, trackscout, treckschuyt, treckskuyt
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch trekschuit, from trekken (“pull”) + schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t??ksk??t/
Noun
trekschuit (plural trekschuits)
- A horse-drawn canal boat or riverboat, used to carry goods or passengers in the Netherlands.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 469:
- And thou, much plumper dame [...]: thee I call: of whom in a treckschuyte, in some Dutch canal, the fat Jufvrouw Gelt, impregnated by a jolly merchant of Amsterdam, was delivered [...].
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 69:
- [H]e ordered his servants to pack up some cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckskuyt, for the Hague […] .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 469:
Dutch
Alternative forms
- treckschuit (obsolete)
- treckschuyt (obsolete)
- trekschuyt (obsolete)
Etymology
First attested in the 17th century. From trekken (“to pull”) +? schuit (“boat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tr?k.sxœy?t/
- Hyphenation: trek?schuit
Noun
trekschuit f or m (plural trekschuiten, diminutive trekschuitje n)
- trekschuit: a historical canal horse-drawn boat transporting passengers and goods.
See also
- trekvaart
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