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ˈsea-boat
[boat n.]
1. a. A boat for the sea. b. A vessel considered in reference to her behaviour at sea. c. spec. A small, manœuvrable craft sent out from a larger vessel, as in cases of emergency at sea.
Beowulf 633 Þa ic on holm ᵹestah, sæ-bat ᵹesæt mid minra secᵹa ᵹedriht. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 199 Our brigantine..an excellent sea-boat. 1727Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins, etc. 241 The Roman Shipwrecks were occasion'd undoubtedly by their Ships being bad Sea-boats, and [etc.]. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Sea-Boat, a vessel that bears the sea firmly, without labouring heavily. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §92 Any good sea-boat, may make her course good to Fowey. 1856Ruskin Harbours of England 1 One object there is still, which I never pass without the renewed wonder of childhood; and that is the bow of a Boat... The blunt head of a common bluff undecked sea-boat. 1892R. C. Leslie Sea-Boat 4 The building of a bluff-bowed, flat-floored sea-boat, is a much greater test of a boat-builder's skill than the construction of any form of longer and sharper craft. 1909Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. viii. 142 Never call away a ‘lifeboat’ at sea except for the purpose of saving life; on all other occasions call away the ‘sea boat’. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xx. 179 The seaboat's crew had gone through an undress rehearsal of ‘Man overboard!’ 1963H. C. de Mierre Long Voyage ix. 148 Port and starboard sea-boats had been put in the water. 1972C. Mudie Motor Boats & Boating 76 Over twelve feet in length..the types of boat begin to diverge from the general purpose dinghy..into seaboats for family use and for fishing.
attrib.1888R. Edmondston & Saxby Home of Naturalist 31 He always had unbounded faith in the sea-boat qualities of a Shetland sixaerin.
2. A name for a Chiton or coat-of-mail shell.
1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 701 These shells have been called by different names,..such as ‘Wood⁓louse’, ‘Sea-boat’,..‘Sea-bug’, and ‘Sea-caterpillar’. |