| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b t |
| NOUN: | 1. a. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship. b. An inland vessel of any size. c. A ship or submarine. 2. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: boat·ed, boat·ing, boats
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To travel by boat. 2. To ride a boat for pleasure. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To transport by boat. 2. To place in a boat. | | IDIOM: | in the same boat In the same situation as another or others. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English bot, from Old English b t. See bheid- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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