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longboats

longboats is the plural of longboat.

Meaning of longboat

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

Questions about longboats

What is longboats the plural of?
Longboats is the plural of longboat.

Words near longboats in the dictionary

  1. Longboat Key
  2. longboater
  3. longboaters
  4. longboatman
  5. longboatmen
  6. longboats
  7. longboi
  8. longbois
  9. Longbone
  10. Longbones
  11. Longbottom

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