boat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.
2. n. An inland vessel of any size.
3. n. A ship or submarine.
4. n. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat.
5. v. To travel by boat.
6. v. To ride a boat for pleasure.
7. v. To transport by boat.
8. v. To place in a boat.
9. idiom. in the same boat In the same situation as another or others.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A small vessel or water-craft; especially, a small open vessel moved by oars. The forms, dimensions, and uses of boats are very various. The boats in use in the United States naval service are steam-launches, launches, steam-cutters, cutters, barges, gigs, whale-boats, and dinghies.
2. n. Any vessel for navigation: usually described by another word or by a prefix denoting its use or mode of propulsion: as, a packet-boat, passage-boat, steamboat, etc. The term is frequently applied colloquially to vessels even of the largest size.
3. n. Any open dish or vessel resembling a boat: as, a gravy-boat; a butter-boat.
4. n. In the Roman Catholic Church, the vessel containing the incense to be placed in the thurible when needed.
5. To transport in a boat: as, to boat goods across a lake.
6. To provide with boats.
7. To go in a boat; row.
8. n. A narrow, shallow vessel of platinum or porcelain which serves to hold a substance that is to be subjected to ultimate analysis, or to the action of gases, and which for that purpose is placed in a glass or porcelain tube.
9. n. A small device attached to each side of a loom for weaving a plain selvage in a fabric having a twill or figured weave.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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. n. A full house.
3. n. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
4. v. To travel by boat.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
2. n. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class.
3. n. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
4. v. To transport in a boat.
5. v. To place in a boat.
6. v. To go or row in a boat.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
2. n. a small vessel for travel on water
3. v. ride in a boat on water