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pap boats

pap boats is the plural of pap boat.

Meaning of pap boat

Noun

pap boat (plural pap boats)

  1. (historical) A kind of sauceboat or dish.
  2. (historical) A boat-shaped receptacle for baby food.
    • “I have a vast inclination to get a pap-boat myself, and make him a present of it.”1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.10
  3. (obsolete) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapa), once used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

Questions about pap boats

What is pap boats the plural of?
Pap boats is the plural of pap boat.

Words near pap boats in the dictionary

  1. PAOs
  2. Paoting
  3. Paotow
  4. pap
  5. pap boat
  6. pap boats
  7. pap smear
  8. pap smears
  9. pap test
  10. pap tests
  11. papa

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