whaleboat

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Etymology

whale +‎ boat

Noun

whaleboat (plural whaleboats)

  1. A long narrow rowing boat, formerly used in whaling, which is pointed at both ends so that it can move either forwards or backwards equally well.
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎[1]:
      Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them.
  2. A boat resembling this and carried on a warship or other ship.
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