: a large oared boat usually carried by a merchant sailing ship
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High up the sides of the room is a forest of fake fir trees on the peaks of the mountain and on the lower level there’s a harbour with full-size longboats sitting in it.
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Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
From medieval sailors buried beneath the cobblestone streets in Visby to the ruins of Norse shipyards where longboats were built 1,000 years ago, ancient maritime lore suffuses the island.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2024
The soldiers loosed a volley or two of musket fire at the mass of agitated native inhabitants and made a hasty retreat to their longboat.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
From medieval sailors buried beneath the cobblestone streets in Visby to the ruins of Norse shipyards where longboats were built 1,000 years ago, ancient maritime lore suffuses the island.
—Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2024
The soldiers loosed a volley or two of musket fire at the mass of agitated native inhabitants and made a hasty retreat to their longboat.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
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“Longboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longboat. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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longboat
noun
long·boat
ˈlȯŋ-ˌbōt 
: a large boat carried on a ship
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