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- noun Obsolete spelling of
boat .
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Examples
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And when the ship was cast away the boate was a sterne being in burthen one tunne and an halfe: there was left in the boate one oare and nothing els.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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It being close at the shore, and she thinking the Fishermen to be asleepe therein: stept boldly, and looked into the boate, where she saw not any body, but onely the poore distressed Damosell, whose sorrowes having brought her now into a sound sleepe, the woman gave many cals before she could awake her, which at the length she did, and looked very strangely about her.
The Decameron 2004
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Christian, demanded of her (in speaking Latine) how it was possible for her, being all alone in the boate, to arrive there in this manner?
The Decameron 2004
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This their boate they tye vnto an horse tayle, causing a man to swimme before, and to guide ouer the horse, or sometime they haue two oares to row themselues ouer.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The iudges, aboue xl. in nomber, sittinge on the farther side of the mere, on a compassed benche wheling haulfe rounds and the people standing about them: The bodie is put into a litle boate made for the nones, and drawen ouer to the iudges by a chorde.
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Now it came to passe, that as the boate was driven to the shore, a poore woman stood at the Sea side, washing certaine Fishermens Nets; and seeing the boate comming towards her under saile, without any person appearing in it, she wondred thereat not a little.
The Decameron 2004
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In the meane time wee mended our boate and our steerage; all this day the winde continued Northerly, and here wee had threescore and two fathoms.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The master of the boate presented me with a great loafe of bread, and sixe ringes of bread, which they call Colaches, and foure dryed pikes, and a pecke of fine otemeale, and I gaue vnto the Master of the boate, a combe, and a small glasse: and he declared vnto me, that he was bound to
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Mosco to Constantinople, and so into all those parts of the world by water, drawing your boate (as their maner is) ouer a little
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It may please your worship to vnderstand, that at the making hereof we all be in good health, thanks be to God, saue onely William our cooke as we came from Colmogro fell into the river out of the boate, and was drowned.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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