Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ship's boat; a small boat.

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Examples

  • When he was come within a flightshot8 of our ship, signs were made to us, that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water; which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him.

    The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29 1909

  • Being before this island, we espied two ships under sail, to the one of which we gave chase, and in the end boarded her with a ship-boat without resistance; which we found to be a good prize, and she yielded unto us good store of wine.

    Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World 1909

  • I chose for pilot the boy, and presently, with great care, launching our patched shallop from the stocks -- for the ship-boat was too small to carry six safely -- we got quietly away.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I chose for pilot the boy, and presently, with great care, launching our patched shallop from the stocks -- for the ship-boat was too small to carry six safely -- we got quietly away.

    The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I chose for pilot the boy, and presently, with great care, launching our patched shallop from the stocks -- for the ship-boat was too small to carry six safely -- we got quietly away.

    The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • When he was come within a flight-shot of our ship, signs were made to us that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water, which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him.

    New Atlantis 1626

  • When he was come within a flight-shot of our ship, signs were made to us that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water, which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him.

    The New Atlantis 1626

  • When he was come within a flight-shot of our ship, signs were made to us that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water, which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him.

    Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

  • When he was come within a flightshot of our ship, signs were made to us, that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water; which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him.

    New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1593

  • But they spying our ship-boat making towards them, returned with maine force and fled into an

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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