jolly boat
Americannoun
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a light boat carried at the stern of a sailing vessel.
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a small pleasure sailboat for use in sheltered waters.
noun
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a small boat used as a utility tender for a vessel
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a small sailing boat used for pleasure
Etymology
Origin of jolly boat
1720–30; jolly < Danish jolle yawl 1
Example Sentences
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When she was within three miles of the harbour, she lowered the jolly boat, the only one she had left, and it pulled in-shore with a flag of truce hoisted at the bows.
From Peter Simple by Frederick Marryat
Both the sailors on board had been drowned, but the Captain himself had managed to make good his escape in the jolly boat.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
And so it was a jolly boat in the literal, not the technical sense.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
Just get into the boat alongside, and row to the brig; and tell them to lower the jolly boat and send it alongside.
From Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
They escaped to the jolly boat, saving nothing but their lives.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
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