boat

⛵

Meaning

1. 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. (slang) A full house.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
4. One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
5. (informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
6. In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
7. Alternative form of BOAT

gravy holder

small craft

small vessel

pluck off

small boat

small ship

barc

go boating

ocean-going liner

row a boat

large boat

craft. junk stable

gathering ring

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bəʊt/

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.