English > boat: 3 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A small vessel for travel on water. |
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| Category of | crank, cranky, tender, tippy | (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail |
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| mooring, mooring line | (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place |
| painter | A line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) |
| passenger, rider | A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it |
| pontoon | (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge |
| registered | (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc |
| scull | propel with sculls |
| sculler | someone who sculls / sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) |
| tack, wear round | Turn into the wind |
| unregistered | (a boat or vessel) not furnished with official documents |
| Parts | boat whistle | A whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning |
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| Narrower | ark | A boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood |
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| barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter | A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) |
| bumboat | A small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger / larger ship at anchor |
| canal boat, narrow boat, narrowboat | A long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
| catamaran | A sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck |
| ferry, ferryboat | A boat that transports / transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule |
| fireboat | A boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront |
| gondola | long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling / sculling |
| guard boat | A boat that is on guard duty (as in a harbor) around a fleet of warships |
| gunboat | A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns |
| junk | Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails |
| longboat | The largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel |
| lugger | small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails |
| mackinaw, Mackinaw boat | A flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes |
| mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat | A boat for carrying mail / mail |
| motorboat, powerboat | A boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine |
| pilot boat | A boat to carry pilots to and from large ships |
| police boat | A boat used by harbor police |
| punt | An open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole |
| river boat | A boat used on rivers or to ply a river |
| scow | Any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends |
| sea boat | A boat that is seaworthy |
| small boat | A boat that is small |
| steamboat | A boat propelled by a steam engine |
| surfboat | A boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf |
| tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutter | A boat for communication between ship and shore |
| tugboat, tug, towboat, tower | A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger / larger ships |
| Broader | vessel, watercraft | A craft designed for water transportation / transportation |
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| Spanish | barca, barco, barcos, bote, embarcación, nave |
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| Catalan | barca, embarcació, vaixell |
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| Verbs | boat | ride in a boat on water |
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