sailboat

plural of boat-hook (alternative spelling of boathooks).

(UK, Ireland, travel, rail transport) A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner.

(historical) In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away.

(fishing) A small, typically radio-controlled, craft that distributes bait to a region thought to contain fish

Government-commissioned mail ship. / River or canal boat that carries mail. / Passenger boat.

(archaeology, Egyptology) A wooden burial boat intended to be used by a king to make celestial journeys in the afterlife.

(fashion) A nautically-inspired wide neckline that runs horizontally, front and back across the collarbone

A boat towed by a line from the shore.

Synonym of packraft (“lightweight inflatable boat”)