Longboat

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  • noun. The longest boat carried by a sailing ship, especially by a merchant ship.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The largest and strongest boat belonging to a sailing ship. It corresponds to the launch of a modern man-of-war.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
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  • noun. Among the boats carried by a ship the largest, thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.
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  • noun. the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel
    • Word Usage
    "In 1904, the mound in southeastern Norway's Vestfold County surrendered one of the country's greatest archaeological treasures, the Oseberg Viking longboat, which is now on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo."
    cross-reference
    longship  narrow boat  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boat  
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    andnever  cockboat  despatch-boat  domicil  dromond  
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