Added 9 October 2026
boat
/bəʊ̯t/ noun
In Latin: navis Wiktionary
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Vessel for travelling by water. A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship". .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
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A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship". .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
- A submarine.
verb
Origin
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Faroese and Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
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