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boatwise

boatwise adverb: in the manner of a boat.

Adverb

boatwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a boat.
    • We rode the broken fence boatwise through the flood-waters.

Origin of boatwise

From boat + -wise.

Questions about boatwise

What does boatwise mean?
Boatwise means in the manner of a boat.
What part of speech is boatwise?
Boatwise is an adverb.

Words near boatwise in the dictionary

  1. boattails
  2. boatward
  3. boatwear
  4. boatwhistle
  5. boatwhistles
  6. boatwise
  7. boatwoman
  8. boatwomen
  9. boatwright
  10. boatwrights
  11. boaty

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