boat

Meanings

Plural: boats

Noun

a small vessel for travel on water
a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
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.
A full house.
A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
Alternative form of BOAT.

Verb

ride in a boat on water
To travel by boat.
To transport in a boat.
To transport (deport to a penal colony).
To place in a boat.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

craft, gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat, ship, vessel

Scrabble Score: 6

boat is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
boat is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boat is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

boat is a valid Words With Friends word