different between longboat vs boat

English

Etymology

long +? boat

Noun

longboat (plural longboats)

1. (nautical) Among the boats carried by a ship the largest, thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 22,^[1]

     But our Patron, warn’d by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-Boat of our English Ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision […]

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Part II, Chapter 1, pp. 5-6,^[2]

     We cast Anchor within a League of this Creek, and our Captain sent a dozen of his Men well armed in the Long Boat, with Vessels for Water, if any could be found.

   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, London: John Cunningham, 1841, Chapter 8, p. 31,^[3]

     So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board.

   • 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Chapter 1,^[4]

     The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat Myrtle, and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible Medusa case.

Translations

See also

• longship
• narrow boat
• longboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)

1. 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.
2. (poker slang) A full house.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

4. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
5. (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)

1. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
2. (transitive) To transport in a boat.

   to boat goods

3. (transitive) To place in a boat.

   to boat oars

Translations

Anagrams

• Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa

Finnish

Noun

boat

1. nominative plural of boa

Anagrams

• abot

Latin

Verb

boat

1. 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)

1. Obsolete form of buat.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??t/

Noun

boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)

1. boat

Derived terms

• stoomboat
• ûnderseeboat

Further reading

• “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011