Botts vs Boats - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between botts and boats

is that botts is the disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse while boats is .

(boat).

(wikipedia botts)

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The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.

(by extension) Infection by gadfly maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.

The noun is usually used in the plural with the definite article. ("The botts" )

(head)

(head)

(boat)

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