boat
noun
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
boatless
-
a word derived from
boat.
Example Sentences
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The bulk of these activities take place in rookeries that are often inaccessible to the flightless or boatless.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Maybe I’ll have to stop scoffing at the boatbuilding capabilities of the boatless.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2016
Feb. 1, South Lake Union; $5-$12, ages 10 and younger free, free "boatless in Seattle" admission after 5 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc-lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
As the fishing is strictly monopolized, I should not wonder if these breekless, boatless fishermen were poaching.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
