deck boat

noun

A shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.

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Meanings

noundeck boat (plural deck boats)

plural deck boats

  1. A shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.

    We were to spend some days by the outermost skerries. We had the deck-boat, and its crew consisted of Rasmus Olsen this was the name of my old friend the pilot's boy, and myself.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181
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