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watercraft

n. 1 Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports. 2 Any self-propelled motorized vessel that moves on or through the water. 3 A boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle. 4 Water vehicles considered as a group.

WordNet
watercraft
  1. n. skill in the management of boats

  2. a craft designed for water transportation [syn: vessel]

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Watercraft

Watercraft are water-borne vehicles including ships, boats, hovercraft and submarines. Watercraft usually have propulsive capability (whether by sail, oar or engine) and hence are distinct from a simple device that merely floats, such as a log raft.

Usage examples of "watercraft".

Very nearly everyone here has at least as much skill at watercraft as you.

Your Majesty, you know as well as I that anyone with that much watercraft would have a strong contact with the emotions of those around them.

The tension in the air throughout the morning was cloying, even to those without an ounce of watercraft in their bodies.

Another occupant of the watercraft hoisted himself over the side and jumped on the log to test its stability.

He had watched Carlono shave off a skin of wood, whose thickness was no more than that of a twig, with a chisel-shaped stone adze to bring the watercraft to its final dimension.

Unlike a raft, which depended upon the buoyancy of its structural materials to float, the principle of the Sharamudoi watercraft was to enclose a pocket of air within a wooden shell.

Those aboard the craft heard the sound of the fast-approaching watercraft and saw the foamy rooster tail it was creating in its wake.

A crewman who had heard the approaching watercraft stood in the stern with his machine pistol at the ready.

He took the watercraft and left the van about an hour before you arrived.

Corri visited the weapons locker while Devin readied their watercraft and their packs.

They secured the watercraft and pitched the tent just inside the tree line.

Devin made a last-minute dash to the watercraft and returned with a small heat pack that he tossed inside the sleeping bag.

They tossed the tent and sleeping bag in the watercraft and untied it.

The river continued to rise until the watercraft lifted and began to float.

Beyond the surf, all manner of recreational watercraft hummed silently as their owners raced them in intricate patterns.