Definitionen
1.NounA craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind."We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind."
2.NounA full house.
3.NounA conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape."a stone boat; a gravy boat"
4.NounA large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size."He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat."
5.NounOne of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
6.NounThe refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally."(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)"
7.NounIn Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
8.NounAlternative form of BOAT.
9.VerbTo travel by boat.
10.VerbTo transport in a boat."to boat goods"
11.VerbTo transport (deport to a penal colony).
12.VerbTo place in a boat."to boat oars"