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a hole in the water you pour money into, somehow worth every drop
means A watercraft, typically smaller than a ship, used to travel across or on water.
from From Old English 'bat,' the same humble word that has bobbed along largely unchanged for over a thousand years. It has cousins across the Germanic languages — Old Norse 'beit' among them — and the maritime peoples of northern Europe swapped both vessels and vocabulary so freely that the word spread outward, lending Romance languages forms like the French 'bateau.' A rare case of a word as old and steady as the thing it names.
- oldest find
- Pesse canoe dates back 10,000 years
- name origin
- BOAT once meant Bring Out Another Thousand
- port and starboard
- starboard from old steering oar on right side
- unsinkable myth
- Titanic carried lifeboats for half aboard
- floating trick
- steel floats by displacing water heavier than itself
titanic — british passenger ship that sank in 1912 in the north atlantic after hitting an iceberg
uss iowa — american battleship launched in 1942, served in wwii and beyond
kon-tiki — norwegian raft sailed by thor heyerdahl across the pacific ocean in 1947