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boat

The correct spelling is boat.

How to pronounce boat

/bəʊt/
noun

IPA: /bəʊt/

Say it like: Boa-t

The correct spelling is 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… For example: "a stone boat;  a gravy boat"

Usage Examples

a stone boat;  a gravy boat

to boat goods

to boat oars

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.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.
  2. 2.A full house.
  3. 3.A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
  4. 4.One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
  5. 5.The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

verb

  1. 1.To travel by boat.
  2. 2.To transport in a boat.
  3. 3.To place in a boat.

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