Definition of watercraft
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: skill in aquatic activities (such as managing boats)
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just about any kind of watercraft can be seen on the lake during the summer
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For some 70,000 years, people in California, Mexico and the Near East made regular use of bitumen: chewing it, painting their skin, sealing watercraft and making water bottles with it.
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Hurricane Matthew generated about 40 derelict vessels last October, but Culver said those seemed to be smaller watercraft.
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Hundreds — if not thousands — of people escaped in watercraft of every description.
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The depictions of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman when the shores were a forest of masts with hundreds of ferries and watercraft of every size sweeping around the city every day, seemed up there with the fantasies of Jules Verne.
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There were more than 3,200 personal auto and 91 commercial vehicle losses, 153 farm or agriculture equipment losses and 111 watercraft damaged or destroyed.
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One of its common modes of spread is recreational watercraft used by boaters, anglers, paddlers and hunters.
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The huge lake is eerily devoid of watercraft, but that may be changing.
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Sharon Schorr said a number of this year's entrants revamped their watercraft in hopes of making them faster and more buoyant.
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First Known Use of watercraft
1566
watercraft Synonyms
Related Words
catboat, ketch, sailboat, schooner, yacht;
canoe, catamaran, dhow, dinghy, dink, dory, dugout, flatboat, garvey, gig, johnboat, kayak, outrigger, paddleboat, pontoon, pram, punt, raft, rowboat, sampan, scow, scull, shallop, shell, skiff, surfboat, umiak, wherry;
cruiser, inboard, motorboat, outboard, powerboat;
auxiliary, bumboat, cutter, jolly boat, launch, lifeboat, longboat, tender, yawl;
ferry, ferryboat, gondola, taxi, water taxi;
banker, hooker, lugger, scalloper, seiner, shrimper, trawler, whaleboat, whaler, workboat;
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