Read full poem →Ye ignorant and idle fishermen!
Hence to your huts, and boats, and inland native shore,
And catch not men, but fish;
Dictionary Entry
A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. boatsboats smallboats fishingboats two
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Poetry examples for “boats”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →TOWARD THE GULF
THE LAKE BOATS
CITIES OF THE PLAIN
Read full poem →Toward the Gulf, The Lake Boats, The Loom, Tomorrow is my
Birthday, Dear Old Dick, The Letter, My Light with Yours, Widow
Read full poem →And under the shadows of cliffs of brick
The lake boats
Huddled like swans
Read full poem →And two old men who turn the bridge
For passing boats sit in the sun all day,
Toothless and sleepy, ancient river dogs,
Read full poem →People the waves have not awakened,
Spanking the boats at the harbor's head,
What do they long for, as I long for,--
Read full poem →To the dynastic temple, with water about it clear as blue jade,
With boats floating, and the sound of mouth-organs and drums,
With ripples like dragon-scales, going grass green on the water,
Read full poem →mechanical civilization: the ant-like madness of men bailing out little
boats they never will sail in, shoeing horses they never will ride,
making chairs they never will sit on, and all with a frenzied
Read full poem →Earl Eric's men in the boats
Seize Kolbiorn's shield as it floats,
Read full poem →And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.