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Longboat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The longest boat carried by a sailing ship, especially by a merchant ship.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Among the boats carried by a ship the largest, thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The largest and strongest boat belonging to a sailing ship. It corresponds to the launch of a modern man-of-war.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. 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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

boat

Cross Reference

longship narrow boat

Same Context

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