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boatless

  • a word derived from boat.
    boat
    noun
    a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.

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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

It has made them castaways in the fullest sense of the word, as much as if left boatless on a desert isle in mid-ocean.

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid