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Being or pertaining to a charter for the hire of a boat without any crew or provisions included.
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(transitive) To push someone.
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(poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
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The skill of handling the blade of an oar in rowing.
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(Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
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Alternative form of boathook [A hook attached to a pole used for pulling or pushing boats, rafts, logs or other objects to or from the side of a boat.]
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Alternative form of boat-in theatre [An outdoor theatre, on the water, where patrons can pilot their boat into an anchorage position, to watch the show. These have become more common with the need for social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic.]
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The total capacity of boats, as of lifeboats on a ship.
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Obsolete spelling of boat [A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.]
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A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
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(also boat lift) A mechanism for lifting boats from the water, or between water on different elevations.
adj
(colloquial) Relating to boats.
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(rowing, canoeing, kayaking, sweeping, sculling) A rubberized ball placed on the bow of the boat to protect others from collisions with the pointed end of the bow.
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(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
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(rowing, cycling) Giving way of the hips during the drive phase.
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(rowing) To strike the blade of the oar against the water when moving the oar back between power strokes.
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A boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc.
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(nautical) A boat, used in competitive rowing, having two rowers, each with a single oar
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(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
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The sport of descending very steep, low-volume whitewater in a canoe or kayak.
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(nautical) A small auxiliary engine.
adj
Having two rowers at each oar, or two tiers of oars one above the other, as in ancient galleys.
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(chiefly in the plural) A wooden paddle, typically one of a pair, used to press butter when making it at home.
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(slang) An outboard motor.
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Synonym of eight (“narrow rowing boat with eight rowers”)
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A steamboat used to take people on coastal, lake or river pleasure-trips.
v
(transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
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A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.
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(kayaking) A type of collapsible canoe
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(colloquial) A watercraft that carries garbage and waste from one location to others for distribution and disposal.
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(intransitive) To leisurely watch the passage of boats, from the bank of a canal, lock or bridge.
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(nautical, slang) A whistling buoy.
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An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice.
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An icebreaker; a ship that breaks through ice.
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Alternative form of knockabout [(sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area]
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(chiefly US, figuratively, by extension) The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of laboring oar [An oar that is worked with great effort.]
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(nautical, military) A type of flat-bottomed boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an assault from the sea.
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A boathouse for lifeboats.
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Synonym of lunar lifeboat
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(nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.
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(idiomatic) An obsolete and dangerous method of whale hunting in which a small boat manned by rowers and a harpooner, or a series of small boats tied together, would be attached to a whale by means of a harpoon and would then be towed by the creature at high speed across the water's surface, until the whale eventually became exhausted.
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Alternative form of Nantucket sleigh ride [(idiomatic) An obsolete and dangerous method of whale hunting in which a small boat manned by rowers and a harpooner, or a series of small boats tied together, would be attached to a whale by means of a harpoon and would then be towed by the creature at high speed across the water's surface, until the whale eventually became exhausted.]
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A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
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The flanged portion of an oar; not the handle nor the shaft.
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An interest in someone else's affairs, possibly through meddling.
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(archaic, poetic) A sweeping motion that resembles rowing.
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(nautical) A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.
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The skill of rowing a boat.
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(sailing) An act of forcing the boat forward by rocking one's body.
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(forestry) The process of assisting logs in their downstream motion by pushing them through the water.
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(rowing) An outrigger canoe or boat.
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Obsolete form of oar. [A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.]
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A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
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(nautical) A large wheel, fitted with paddles, used to propel a vessel (especially a paddle steamer)
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(nautical, US, Canada, Australia) a pedalo
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A boat propelled by a paddlewheel.
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Part of a river where playboating is performed.
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A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.
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(rowing, kayaking) A protective hand covering attached to the oars or paddles while rowing, canoeing or kayaking. They insulate the hands from wind and cold while allowing the bare hands inside to contact the paddle shaft or oar and maintain grip and feel.
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One who propels a boat using a pole.
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The art or process of constructing pontoon bridges.
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A journey made by rowing.
v
To contribute toward a group effort.
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(nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
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(nautical) A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
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A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
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A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
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(chiefly US) A raft, kayak, or similar watercraft used especially for traveling with the current of a river in a swift manner.
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Alternative form of river runner [(chiefly US) A raft, kayak, or similar watercraft used especially for traveling with the current of a river in a swift manner.]
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(US) A large paddle steamer operating on the Mississippi river.
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Any vessel that travels along a river.
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(intransitive) To row a boat of this kind.
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(nautical, slang) An inflatable boat.
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a small sailboat with a single mast, especially one used for recreation
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Alternative spelling of sakia [A water wheel, traditionally drawn by a draft animal, but now with a motor. It is about 2-5 meters in diameter.]
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A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
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A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.
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(boating slang) To use a British Seagull outboard.
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A type of middle-distance deep-sea trawler widely used during the 1960s and 1970s.
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(obsolete) A boat; a small vessel.
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(UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.
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An oar with a curved blade to assist in rowing.
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A packet boat powered by steam.
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A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
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A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.
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A scow that is propelled only by water currents and by sweeps (two massive steering oars in front and back).
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(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
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A log transportation method in which logs are tied together into rafts and drifted or pulled across a water body or down a flatter river.
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(historical) A spar carried by a man-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.
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(military, nautical) A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
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(UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
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Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
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A sailboat designed to be carried on a towed trailer.
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(dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods.
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(nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
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