the boat
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
In US history and genealogy, a nickname for Mayflower, the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.
Informal
name
Alternative letter-case form of the boat (“Mayflower”).
Example Sentences
- "Angela Davis, longtime revolutionary and former member of the Communist Party, was stunned to learn that she, of all people, could trace her ancestry back to the boat."
- "Bit by bit, she learned the stories of her ancestors and of Cape Cod. And it occurred to her: “These people,” she said, “probably went all the way back to The Boat.”"
- "“So, I started working on that particular individual where the error occurred and found out almost immediately that we did descend from William Brewster," Wheaton said. “The story I always tell, when I found the error, I walked over to where my friends were sitting and said, ‘Well, I am off the boat.’ They commiserated and then I went back to work and was eventually able to say, ‘I am back on the boat again.’”"