BOAT

v. travel by or sail in a boat; sail a boat; transport by boat

n. ship, vehicle for traveling on water; bowl, serving dish

A boat is a watercraft designed to float or plane on, and provide transport over, water. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were historically designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In Naval terms, a boat is something small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Some boats too large for the Naval definition include the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat, narrowboat and ferryboat. However, these examples generally do operate on inland and protected coastal waters. Modern submarines can also be called boats, despite their underwater capabilities and size. This may be because the first submarines could be carried by a ship and were not capable of making independent offshore passages. Boats may be used by the military or other government interests, or for research or commercial purposes; but regardless of size, a vessel in private, non-commercial usage is almost certainly a boat.
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In the United Kingdom, public rights of way are paths on which the public have a legally protected right to pass and re-pass. The law differs in each of the constituent countries of the kingdom: notably, in England and Wales rights of way only exist where they are so designated (or are able to be designated if not already); in Scotland, meanwhile, any route that meets certain conditions is defined as a right of way, and in addition there is a general presumption of access to the countryside. Private rights of way or easements also exist.
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Noun
1. a small vessel for travel on water
(hypernym) vessel, watercraft
(hyponym) ark
(part-meronym) boat whistle
(class) registered
2. a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
(synonym) gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat
(hypernym) dish
(hyponym) argyll, argyle
Verb
1. ride in a boat on water
(hypernym) ride
(hyponym) yacht
(classification) navigation, pilotage, piloting

(v. t.)
To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
  

(v. t.)
To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
  

(v. i.)
To go or row in a boat.
  

(n.)
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
  

(n.)
A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
  

(n.)
A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
  

a carrier made to hold wafers. Most commonly a boat has 25 slots and is made of quartz, polysilicon or silicon carbide for use in a furnace, polypropylene for general wafer transport or Teflon for use in a wet process. Some furnace boats have 50 slots.