[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.", "a small ship, generally for specialized use:a fishing boat.", "a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat :They lowered the boats for evacuation.", "a ship.", "a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.", "a serving dish resembling a boat:a gravy boat;a celery boat.", "Ecclesiastical.a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to go in a boat:We boated down the Thames."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to transport in a boat:They boated us across the bay.", "to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships.Compare ship1(def10) ship1(def10)."]}]