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deck boat

deck boat noun: a shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.

Noun

deck boat (plural deck boats)

  1. A shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.
    • We were to spend some days by the outermost skerries. We had the deck-boat, and its crew consisted of Rasmus Olsen this was the name of my old friend the pilot's boy, and myself.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181

Forms of deck boat

pluraldeck boats

Questions about deck boat

What does deck boat mean?
Deck boat means a shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.
What part of speech is deck boat?
Deck boat is a noun.
What is the plural of deck boat?
The plural of deck boat is deck boats.

Words near deck boat in the dictionary

  1. decivilizes
  2. decivilizing
  3. deck
  4. deck angle
  5. deck angles
  6. deck boat
  7. deck boats
  8. deck box
  9. deck boxes
  10. deck bridge
  11. deck bridges

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