Definition of "boate" [boate]

• Obsolete spelling of boat. (noun)

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• "And when the ship was cast away the boate was a sterne being in burthen one tunne and an halfe: there was left in the boate one oare and nothing els."
• "Christian, demanded of her (in speaking Latine) how it was possible for her, being all alone in the boate, to arrive there in this manner?"
• "Now it came to passe, that as the boate was driven to the shore, a poore woman stood at the Sea side, washing certaine Fishermens Nets; and seeing the boate comming towards her under saile, without any person appearing in it, she wondred thereat not a little."