Longboat

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The largest and thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.

    "But our Patron, warn’d by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-Boat of our English Ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision […]"

  2. 2
    the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel wordnet

Etymology

From long + boat.

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