FromMiddle Englishbot,boot,boet,boyt(“boat”), fromOld Englishbāt(“boat”), fromProto-West Germanic*bait, fromProto-Germanic*baitaz,*baitą(“boat, small ship”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-(“to break, split”). Cognate withOld Norsebeit(“boat”),Middle Dutchbeitel(“little boat”).

Old Norsebátr (whenceIcelandicbátur,Norwegianbåt,Danishbåd),Dutchboot,GermanBoot,Occitanbatèl andFrenchbateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

• (Received Pronunciation)enPR:bōt,IPA^(key):/bəʊt/
• Rhymes:-əʊt
• (General American)enPR:bōt,IPA^(key):/boʊt/

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boat (pluralboats)

2. Acraft used fortransportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in thewater,propelled byoars oroutboard motor or inboardmotor or bywind.
   • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter II, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such aboat as theMount 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.

   • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:

     Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel[…]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banksboat just in from a v'yage.

   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:

     The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproofboats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

3. (pokerslang) Afull house.
4. Avehicle,utensil, ordish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

   a stoneboat;  a gravyboat

5. (organic chemistry,physical chemistry) One of two possibleconformations ofcyclohexane rings (the other beingchair), shaped roughly like a boat.
6. (Australian politics,informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

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7. (cellular automata) In Conway’sGame of Life, a particularstill life consisting of a deadcell surrounded by five living cells.
   • 1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, incomp.theory.cell-automata‎^[1] (Usenet):

     It creates 4 blocks, aboat, and a glider every 768 generations.

   • 2004 May 24, Paul Chapman, “A Prototype Programmable Universal Constructor for Conway's Life”, incomp.theory.cell-automata‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The program is represented as a string ofboats (1s) and blocks (0s).

   • 2005 February 23, Dave Greene, “exist glider gun able of reconstruction in Life?”, incomp.theory.cell-automata‎^[3] (Usenet):

     For many stable patterns, by the way, there are other input glider lanes where the gliders are caught and turned intoboats, which are then cleanly deleted by another glider coming in on the same lane.

8. Alternative form ofBOAT

• There is no explicit limit, but the wordboat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than aship but larger than adinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also forlakers (ships used in theGreat Lakes trade in North America).

• (craft on or in water):craft,ship,vessel

• Belizean Creole:boat
• → Esperanto:boato
• → Dhivehi:ބޯޓު(bōṭu)
• → Fijian:boto
• → Hijazi Arabic:بوت(bōt)
• → Japanese:ボート(bōto)
• → Malay:bot
• → Pitcairn-Norfolk:boet(Norfuk)
• → Sinhalese:බෝට්‍ටුව(bōṭṭuwa)
• → Swahili:boti
• → Scots:boat,bote(compare nativebait,bate)
• → Tahitian:poti
• Tok Pisin:bot

• Category:Watercraft

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University.→ISBN

boat (third-person singular simple presentboats,present participleboating,simple past and past participleboated)

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

   toboat goods

3. (transitive,slang,obsolete) To transport(deport to a penal colony).
   • 2021, Graham Seal,Condemned, page120:

     Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery.

4. (transitive) To place in a boat.

   toboatoars

• Bato,Tabo,atob

FromEnglishboat.

boat

1. boat

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007),Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 58.

boat

1. nominativeplural ofboa

• abot

boat

1. third-personsingularpresentactiveindicative ofboō

• buat

FromProto-Malayic*buat, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buhat.

• IPA^(key):/buat/
• Rhymes:-uat,-wat,-at

boat (1701,used in the formberboat)

1. Obsolete form ofbuat.

• IPA^(key):/boə̯t/

boat n (pluralboaten,diminutiveboatsjeorboatke)

1. boat

• stoomboat
• ûnderseeboat

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