How to spell boat

Boat is spelled B-O-A-T.

hear itboat/boʊt/nounSounds

What it means: A small vessel for travel on water.

In a sentence: The boys rode in a boat on the lake.

Same family: sauce boat, gravy boat, serving dish, platter, bowl. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The tableware sense of “boat” comes from its long, curved, boat-like shape used for serving gravy or sauce. It developed from the much older word “boat” meaning a watercraft, which goes back to Old English and related Germanic languages.

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