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longboat

longboat noun: the largest and thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.

Noun

longboat (plural longboats)

  1. The largest and thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.
    • But our Patron, warn’d by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-Boat of our English Ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision […]1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
    • We cast Anchor within a League of this Creek, and our Captain sent a dozen of his Men well armed in the Long Boat, with Vessels for Water, if any could be found.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the...

longboat meaning in Tamil

longboat in Tamil

பயணக்கப்பலின் மிகப் பெரிய படகு

Examples of longboat in a sentence

  • So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board.1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter VIII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]...
  • The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H.1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London...

Forms of longboat

plurallongboats

Origin of longboat

From long + boat.

Words formed from longboat

Questions about longboat

What does longboat mean?
Longboat means the largest and thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.
What is longboat in Tamil?
Longboat in Tamil is பயணக்கப்பலின் மிகப் பெரிய படகு. See Longboat meaning in Tamil.
How do you use longboat in a sentence?
So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board.
What part of speech is longboat?
Longboat is a noun.
What is the plural of longboat?
The plural of longboat is longboats.

Words near longboat in the dictionary

  1. longboarded
  2. longboarder
  3. longboarders
  4. longboarding
  5. longboards
  6. longboat
  7. Longboat Key
  8. longboater
  9. longboaters
  10. longboatman
  11. longboatmen

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