A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat, lanch, barge, pinnace, jolly- boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat, perogue.

A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat.

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake.