boate

Noun

boat (plural boats)

1. A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".
   • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.

   Synonyms:

   craft, ship, vessel

2. A submarine.
3. (colloquial) A large, ocean-going ship.
4. (A container resembling a boat in shape.) A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.
   • a stone boat; a gravy boat
5. (A container resembling a boat in shape., Anglicanism) A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.
   • And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
6. (slang, Other senses.) A full house.

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