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Longboat
noun
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Noun
- 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 the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel wordnet
Etymology
From long + boat.
See also for "longboat"
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