Wooden Definition–adjective | 1. | consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden ship. | | 2. | stiff, ungainly, or awkward: a wooden gait. | | 3. | without spirit, animation, or awareness. | | 5. | indicating the fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. | |
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Boat Definition–noun | 1. | a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion. | | 2. | a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat. | | 3. | a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation. | | 5. | a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water. | | 6. | a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat. | | 7. | Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer. | –verb (used without object) | 8. | to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay. | | 10. | to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8). | —Idioms | 11. | in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat. | | 12. | miss the boat,
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Informal. | a. | to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college. | | b. | to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation. | | | 13. | rock the boat. rock 2 (def. 15). | |
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