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bullboat

[ bool-boht ]

noun

  1. a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bullboat1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; bull 1 + boat
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Example Sentences

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There came a splash, a chorus of curses as a bullboat, thrown overboard upside down, slipped away in the darkness.

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But you can't beat the bullboat for the purpose for which it was first made; that of navigating the shallower streams.

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Pardner's waitin' near th' mouth with a bullboat.

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Kneeling in a "bullboat," fashioned from the skin of an animal, and wielding a paddle with the dexterity only to be attained after years of practice in canoeing, a sturdily-built and thoroughly bronzed Canadian lad glanced ever and anon back along the course over which he had so recently passed; and then up at the black storm clouds hurrying out of the mysterious North.

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And the delicious odor of that supper was enough to arouse the dormant appetite of one who had foresworn all cookery, one of these modern cranks determined to exist upon nuts and fruit, which our young friend of the bullboat certainly was not.

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