Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. Advice boat. See under Advice. — Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten. — Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; — usually called a painter. — In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.
BOAT
Boat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]
1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. To boat the oars. See under Oar.
BOAT
Boat, v. i.
Defn: To go or row in a boat.
I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.
BOATABLE
Boat"a*ble, a.
1. Such as can be transported in a boat.
2. Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.
BOATAGE
Boat"age, n.