BOATING

boating, yachting

(noun) water travel for pleasure

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

boating (countable and uncountable, plural boatings)

The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.

(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Verb

boating

present participle of boat

Source: Wiktionary

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Boat"ing, n.

1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

BOAT

Boat, n. Etym: [OE. boot, bat, AS. bat; akin to Icel. batr, Sw. båt, Dan. baad, D.& G. boot. Cf. Bateau.]

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.

2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.

Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. Advice boat. See under Advice.

– Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. Totten.

– Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter.

– In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] F. W. Newman.

Boat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boated; p. pr. & vb. n. Boating.]

1. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

2. To place in a boat; as, to boat oars. To boat the oars. See under Oar.

Boat, v. i.

Definition: To go or row in a boat. I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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