longboat
Americannoun
noun
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the largest boat carried aboard a commercial sailing vessel
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another term for longship
Etymology
Origin of longboat
Vocabulary lists containing longboat
Medieval Europe - Middle School
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Medieval Europe - High School
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Example Sentences
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Locals dressed in tunics, capes and feather-tipped helmets brandished axes and hurled burning torches into a replica of a Viking longboat.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023
Rubber boats, speedboats and a local longboat were being used in the search for the others.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
They gathered in a great incendiary ring around the longboat that clogged the night air with thick smoke.
From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015
Most of their songs are about wolves and witches or something similar; they have titles such as How Heavy This Axe and The Horned Goddess and generally suggest that the band arrived by longboat, not tour bus.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013
The creaking of ropes as the crewmen hoisted Tanin in her longboat over the side of the ship.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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