boatn.[OE. boot, bat, AS. bt; akin to Icel. btr, Sw. bt, 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.()()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.()()()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.
()v. t.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.()v. i. To go or row in a boat.()I boated over, ran my craft aground. (Tennyson.)