Large-oared craft on a ship

Usage examples of longboat.

Johann and Caroline had set out in the opposite direction, planning a ride of three miles or so straight through the heart of London to Billingsgate Stairs, immediately downstream of the Bridge, where a longboat would take them out to a Hanoverian sloop.

Still in their yeti forms, Teldin and Raven struggled with the oars for only a few minutes before Raven decided to shapechange into one of the giant, eellike fish that abounded in the icy waters, so that she could tow the longboat back.

One, Dimitros, had ridden his fireboat right in, while his longboat team, rowing frantically behind, had screamed at him to jump.

They hauled in herrin on their westward migration, wingfish, huge tub-bodied feluna, and sometimes the writhing, entangled sliminess of large octopuses, some of them almost big enough to swamp the smaller of the longboats.

Men with boathooks were stationed in the longboats, to cut a passage clear.

Together, they swooped down to the harbor and circled the round-bellied carracks and longboats moored there.

As the longboat entered the surf and was carried forward by the combers, Sidi looked once more at the relief on the amulet.

Years ago, on a beach like this in Portugal, Sharpe had watched the longboats broach in the combers and spill their men like puppets into the killing sea.

As the two longboats moved slowly against the current into the mouth of the gorge, they startled the flocks of water birds from the shallows into the air.

Along the bank now, emerging gradually out of the thinning mist, were the rows of ramshackle huts on spidery stilts and the houseboats with tattered washcloths for curtains and the hand sawmills and the floating docks, each with its moored semicircle of sleek longboats radiating outward like elliptical wooden petals.

Darting about the river like minnows around an old bass were motorized longboats with neat cannonball piles fore and aft of astonishingly green squash and melons.

Eventually he placed his first mate, Arnold Fowler, in charge of the deck and ordered one of his longboats made ready.

The four longboats from the Golden Bough were crowded with seamen as they rowed ashore in that dark hour before the dawn.

Buzzard bellowed again, and led his crew sprinting down the beach to where the longboats from the Golden Bough were drawn up.

Before Wayne took one of the longboats from the Old Laughing Lady back to the docks, he checked on Rita.