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noun - the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel
The longest boat carried by a sailing ship, especially by a merchant ship.
noun - the largest boat carried by a sailing vessel
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| The longest boat carried by a sailing ship, especially by a merchant ship. |
| a large boat which may be launched from a sailing ship. |
| the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel |
| a long, narrow, open boat, moved with oars ( long poles with flat ends) |
| A large boat which may be launched from a sailing ship. |
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In the days of sailing ships, a vessel would carry several ship's boats for various uses. One would be a longboat, an open boat to be rowed by eight or ten oarsmen, two per thwart. The longboat was double banked; its rowing benches were designed to accommodate two men each pulling an oar on opposite sides. Other boats sometimes embarked on a sailing ship included the cutter, whaleboat, gig, jolly boat, launch, dinghy, and punt. * Unlike the dinghy or the cutter, the longboat would have fairly fine lines aft to permit its use in steep waves such as surf or wind against tide where need be. Like other ships' boats, the longboat could be rigged for sailing but was primarily a pulling boat. It had the double-banked arrangement in common with the cutter. This was possible as it had a beam similar to a cutter's but broader than that of a gig, which was single banked. * The longboat was generally more seaworthy than the cutter, which had a fuller stern for such load-carrying work as laying out an |