jolly-boat

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  1. A clincher-built boat smaller than a cutter, usually hoisted at the stern of a vessel, and used for hack-work. It is about 4 feet in beam and 12 feet in length, with a bluff bow and wide transom. Five of us went a-fishing in the jolly-boat; … but leave to go ashore was refused. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 82.

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  • Our gig's crew towed the pinnace astern of the gig, and the launch was towed by six men in the jolly-boat. —  Two Years Before the Mast
  • A few yards away from the stern-post was the jolly-boat with the crew. —  The Spinner's Book of Fiction
  • I searched the deck with my eyes, then from the jolly-boat the _arraiz_ obligingly yelled, '_El biroto, el biroto_!' —  The Spinner's Book of Fiction
  • "Aye, sir; the jolly-boat manned and off, and the gig launched and lying by the slip." —  Major Vigoureux
  • Mr. Rogers has already started for Inniscaw in the jolly-boat, taking Leggo with him. —  Major Vigoureux
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  1. from jolly-, accommodation of Danish jolle =Swedish julle = Dutch jol, a yawl (yawl being an English form of the D.), + boat. See yawl.
 

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