Rowboat vs Dinghy - What's the difference?
rowboat | dinghy |
(label) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
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, title= (label) An inflatable rubber life raft.
To travel by dinghy.
Dinghy is a hyponym of rowboat.
As nouns the difference between rowboat and dinghy
is that rowboat is a small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing) while dinghy is a small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.As a verb dinghy is
to travel by dinghy.dinghy
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(wikipedia dinghy) (dinghies)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}