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bullboat

bullboat noun: a shallow, small, round skin-covered boat used by the American Indians.

Noun

bullboat (plural bullboats)

  1. A shallow, small, round skin-covered boat used by the American Indians.
    • As soon as they saw Hunt’s party they yelled at the top of their voices for food. Hunt quickly ordered his men to construct a bullboat, using the hide of a slaughtered horse wrapped around a bowl-shaped wooden frame.2015, Stark, Peter, Astoria : Astor and Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a tale of ambition and survival on the early American frontier, Ecco, page 159

Forms of bullboat

pluralbullboats
alternative formbull boat
alternative formbull-boat

Origin of bullboat

bull + boat

Questions about bullboat

What does bullboat mean?
Bullboat means a shallow, small, round skin-covered boat used by the American Indians.
What part of speech is bullboat?
Bullboat is a noun.
What is the plural of bullboat?
The plural of bullboat is bullboats.

Words near bullboat in the dictionary

  1. bullbeggar
  2. bullbeggars
  3. bullberries
  4. bullberry
  5. bullbleep
  6. bullboat
  7. bullboats
  8. bullbutter
  9. bullcook
  10. bullcooks
  11. bullcorn

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