Associations to the word «Longboat»

Wiktionary

LONGBOAT, noun. (nautical) Among the boats carried by a ship the largest, thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.

Dictionary definition

LONGBOAT, noun. The largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope