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Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.
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v. i.
A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
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A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
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A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
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Any jager gull; especially, the Megalestris skua; -- called also boatswain.
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A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
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An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.
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An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
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A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
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A call by the boatswain's whistle.
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A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
v. i.
To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
v. t. & i.
To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
v. i.
An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
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A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
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An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
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Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.
v. t.
That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
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The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.
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