boat

noun12

1. •
   a vehicle for going across water, often open on top and smaller than a ship

   • We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.
2. •
   Vessel for travelling by water.
3. •
   A submarine.
4. •
   (informal) A large, ocean-going ship.
5. •
   A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.
6. •
   (US, informal) A car, especially a large or heavy one.

   • He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.
7. •
   (informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
8. •
   One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
9. •
   A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense 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
10. •
    (slang) A full house.
11. •
    (slang) The face (compare boat race).
12. •
    In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.

    • It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations. — 1994

verb4

1. •
   To travel by boat.
2. •
   To transport in a boat.

   • to boat goods
3. •
   To place in a boat.

   • to boat oars
4. •
   (slang, no longer used) To transport (deport to a penal colony).

   • Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery. — 2021

noun2

1. •
   (Internet) Acronym of best of all time.
2. •
   (UK) Acronym of byway open to all traffic.