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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 T12 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 answer12 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

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