deck boat

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deck boat (plural deck boats)

  1. A shallow boat designed to maximise deck space.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
      We were to spend some days by the outermost skerries. We had the deck-boat, and its crew consisted of Rasmus Olsen this was the name of my old friend the pilot's boy, and myself.
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