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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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BOAT, n.2 and v. As in St.Eng., except in the following:

I. n.

1. A ferry.ne.Sc. 1934 (per Abd.16):
“Ye'll win ower at the boat o' Ashogle.” The usage is well seen in place-names like Blacksboat and Boat of Garten on Speyside.
[In T. Pennant Tour in Scot. 1769 mention is made of a ferry on the Tay near Scone called Bullion's Boat. See Martin Bulg.]Abd. 1753 Abd. Jnl. (16 Feb.):
Out of complaisance he saw him to the Boat of Logie and would needs ferry him over the Water alone.

Hence boatie, “a man who plies a ferry boat” (Bnff.2, Abd.19 1935).

2. Combs.: (1) Boat boll. See Boll, I. Combs. (1).

(2) Boat cold (see quot.).w.Sc. (St Kilda) 1930 Times (6 Sept.) 7/4:
Largely because they believed that strangers visiting Hirta brought with them what was termed the “boat cold,” the St Kildans were usually averse from people landing on their island.

(3) Boat cough, = (2). w.Sc. 1878 G. Seton St. Kilda 228:
Another very remarkable malady which occasionally prevails among the inhabitants of St. Kilda is a species of influenza, locally termed "boat-cough," "strangers' cold" (cnatan na[n] gall), or "the trouble", by which the natives are almost always attacked shortly after the arrival of a vessel from the outer Hebrides.

(4) Boat's draw, (a) “The indentation which the keel of a boat makes when she is drawn in and out of the noost” (Sh. 1866 Edm. Gl.); (b) “the place where a boat stands when drawn up; the place which the owner of a boat claims and uses as a stance for his boat” (Sh. 1914 Angus Gl.; Sh.7 1935).

(5) Boatman, a name for a coastguard (Bwk. 1948, obs.; Kcd. 1975).

(6) Boat-noost, a landing-place; a slip for boats. See Noust.Sh. 1932 J. M. E. Saxby Sh. Trad. Lore 191:
He was hurrying to join some friends at the boat-noost.

(7) Boat's pairt haddock, “a certain size of haddocks left for the boat cleaner; the fish that goes to the upkeep of the boat” (Mry.1 1925).

(8) Boatstick, “the pole of a small boat; used for punting or for setting a light sail. The mast of a small fishing boat is still called the stick” (Sc. 1887 Jam.6).

II. v.

1. “To take boat, to enter into a boat; as That beast winna boat” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2). Given as obs. in this sense in N.E.D. (only quot. 1610) and for Lin. only in E.D.D. ppl.adj.Sc. a.1714 First Earl of Cromartie in Earls of Crm. (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 487:
They told they saw him boated and gone.
Lth. 1935 (per Ags.2):
Thae Fife folk's bad an' bad eneuch; but God peety ye when ye come to deal with them that's twice boated — i.e. those who have crossed two ferries (Forth and Tay).

2. To fish from a boat.Sc. 1835 T. T. Stoddart Art Angling . . . in Scot. 12:
Lochs may be boated or fished from the banks.

Comb.: boated men, occasional men hired to work in boats.Abd. 1753 Philorth Baron Court Book MS IV 84:
To elopt, run of and desert his duty as a Boated Man in the said sea town thereby not only throwing a boat waist but otherwise giving an evel example to others.
Abd. 1789 in P. F. Anson Fishing Boats, etc. (1930) 165–166:
In that same year there were forty-two fishermen at Broadsea and seven boats, each with a crew of six, consisting of a skipper, foreman, and “boated men.”

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