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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The jolly boat has returned here, bringing the surviving lascars.
From Life of William Carey by George Smith
I know of a jolly boat as would just do.”
From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Frank Dadd
The seaman dodged, and the cider mug spun into the planks of a jolly boat.
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
With this object in view, Lieutenant Thomas pushed off in the jolly boat, accompanied by the French fishermen's small boat which had come to the assistance of the Grappler's crew.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly
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
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