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Definition of Small boat

1. Noun. A boat that is small.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Boat

Literary usage of Small boat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1896)
"I have clung to small-boat sailing ever since, and would rather be captain ... I think that from small-boat sailing we get the best yachtsmen—those who know ..."

2. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1901)
"... Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam — Keeling as a paradise — A risky adventure in a small boat—Away to Rodriguez — Taken for Antichrist — The governor ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... is used to carry the supply of incense; as its name implies, it is shaped like a small boat, but with a lid and a base on which to stand it. ..."

4. The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de by John Barbour, John Lydgate (1894)
"They search about till James of Douglas finds a small boat that will hold but three. The king and Douglas cross over, and at last all the rest follow them. ..."

5. The Political Code of the State of New York by David Dudley Field, William Curtis Noyes, Alexander Warfield Bradford, New York (State). (1860)
"I. in. i nij and receiving passengers by small boat. 270. Lines used for landing not to be drawn by machinery. 271. The engine to be stopped. 272. I :. ..."

6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"The plaintiff's intestate, with two other persons, was rowing in a small boat in New York harbor, when they were overtaken and run over by a steamboat. ..."

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