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longboat

[ UK /lˈɒŋbə‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel

How To Use longboat In A Sentence

  • Hadleigh looked towards the pirate ship to see three longboats full of men rowing towards them.
  • Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
  • Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines.
  • For example, during the park tour, the warden stresses that they did not come on Viking longboats.
  • Within moments of the 6ft torches being thrown on to the deck, the longboat was consumed in flames.
  • Thankfully these are not Norse raisers in their longboats, but the Royal Marines' new all-terrain vehicles, now being delivered to Corps units.
  • Nordic warriors sailed into York in longboats on Saturday morning, before two key battles - Stamford Bridge and the Rout to Riccall - were theatrically recreated.
  • The team was greeted by a longboat from the island with the traditional welcome party, and the majority of the island's residents were gathered at the shore to welcome their diving visitors.
  • The beading made up swirls and whorls in a pattern that reminded Holly of the decoration on Viking longboats. JUST BETWEEN US
  • She then hired Telemachus Press LLC in Longboat Key, Fla., to act as her digital publisher, including formatting the manuscript, for about $3, 000.
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