Boating

Definitions

1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
   countable, uncountable
2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
   countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I like⟳ nothing better than to hear⟳ of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.”

“With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park⟳, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.”

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