\Boat\, n. [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to Icel.
b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. {Bateau}.]
1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars
   or paddles, but often by a sail.

Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as,
      canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.

2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive
   of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet
   boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is
   sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest
   class; as, the Cunard boats.

3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in
   shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.



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\ (b[=o]t), 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\, v. i.
To go or row in a boat.

      I boated over, ran my craft aground.     --Tennyson.