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whaleboats

whaleboats is the plural of whaleboat.

Meaning of whaleboat

Noun

whaleboat (plural whaleboats)

  1. A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well.
    • Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. A boat resembling this and carried on a warship or other ship.

Questions about whaleboats

What is whaleboats the plural of?
Whaleboats is the plural of whaleboat.

Words near whaleboats in the dictionary

  1. whalebird
  2. whalebirds
  3. whaleboat
  4. whaleboater
  5. whaleboaters
  6. whaleboats
  7. whalebone
  8. whalebone whale
  9. whalebone whales
  10. whaleboned
  11. whalebones

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