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Word entry · 4 letters

boat

Best crossword clue

"Craft at a dock"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈbəʊ̯t/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abotStarts with BEnds with T17 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. ride in a boat on water

Word 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”).

Used in a sentence

  • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
  • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel[…]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.
  • a stone boat; a gravy boat

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer17 curated clues

01Craft at a dock4 letters
02Craft on a lake4 letters
03Craft with a bow4 letters
04Fishing vessel4 letters
05Lake craft4 letters
06Lake travel craft4 letters
07Lake vessel4 letters
08Marina craft4 letters
09River craft4 letters
10Small vessel on water4 letters
11Small watercraft4 letters
12Vessel for a lake4 letters
13Vessel with oars, maybe4 letters
14Water transport4 letters
15Water travel craft4 letters
16Watercraft with a hull4 letters
17Water craft4 letters

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