boated
- 1Simple past and past participle of boat.
The family boated along the coast every July when the weather was calm.
Having boated through the marshes, the explorers mapped the hidden channel.
Note
One regular spelling covers both the simple past and the participle, so only the sentence tells them apart: they boated along the coast, or having boated through the marshes. It works intransitively for traveling by boat and transitively for carrying or placing something in one (the crates were boated ashore). An old slang use meant deported to a penal colony, so a convict boated in older writing was banished, not rowed.
boated is a form of boat
boat, verb: To travel on water in a boat, or to carry people or goods somewhere by boat. Full entry
- Spelling
- boat → boated: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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