SMALL BOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small boat mean? 

• SMALL BOAT (noun)
  The noun SMALL BOAT has 1 sense:

1. a boat that is small

  Familiarity information: SMALL BOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL BOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boat that is small

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("small boat" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "small boat"):

canoe (small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle)

cockleshell (a small light flimsy boat)

coracle (a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain)

dinghy; dory; rowboat (a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled)

gig (long and light rowing boat; especially for racing)

racing boat (a boat propelled by oarsmen and designed for racing)

skiff (any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor)

yawl (a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars))

 Context examples 

I did not stop to see what had become of the small boat, but sprang to the jib-sheet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He could see it quite distinctly when he rubbed the mists out of his eyes, and he could see the white sail of a small boat cutting the water of the shining sea.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was no light adventure, this trusting ourselves in a small boat to so raw and stormy a sea, and it was imperative that we should guard ourselves against the cold and wet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There is no need of going into an extended recital of our suffering in the small boat during the many days we were driven and drifted, here and there, willy-nilly, across the ocean.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)