Definition of "boat" []

• A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship. (noun)
• An inland vessel of any size. (noun)
• A ship or submarine. (noun)
• A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat. (noun)
• To travel by boat. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Another boat with purse nets surrounds the “light boat” with nets and pulls in the catch."
• "When John Fitch's boat stemmed the current of the Delaware, contending successfully with sail boats, it was called, in derision, the _scheme boat_."
• "In the first example, William and Henry are represented as jointly owning a boat; in the second, each is represented as owning a separate boat -- _boat_ is understood after _William's_."