boat – English noun declension

English noun forms of boat

Noun: boat
Singularboat
Pluralboats

Sample Sentences

  • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
  • Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either. [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • 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. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. [2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • a stone boat;   a gravy boat
  • And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals. [1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:]
  • Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled
  • He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.
  • It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations. [1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • The program is represented as a string of boats (1s) and blocks (0s). [2004 May 24, Paul Chapman, “A Prototype Programmable Universal Constructor for Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • For many stable patterns, by the way, there are other input glider lanes where the gliders are caught and turned into boats, which are then cleanly deleted by another glider coming in on the same lane. [2005 February 23, Dave Greene, “exist glider gun able of reconstruction in Life?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰóydos
5. Proto-Germanic *baitaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *bait
7. Old English bāt
8. Middle English bot
9. English boat
10. 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”).
11. Old Norse bátr (whence Faroese and Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
12. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)). See: Middle English Nouns 'bot', Old Norse Nouns 'beit', Old Norse Nouns 'bátr', Danish Nouns 'båd', Dutch Nouns 'boot', German Nouns 'Boot', French Nouns 'bateau'.

Verbs referencing "boat"

French Nouns bateau, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns båt, German Nouns Boot.