The difference between Boat and Galley

When used as nouns, boat means a craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind, whereas galley means a long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not.

Boat is also verb with the meaning: to travel by boat.

check bellow for the other definitions of Boat and Galley

  1. Boat as a noun:

    A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

  2. Boat as a noun (poker slang):

    A full house.

  3. Boat as a noun:

    A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

    Examples:

    "a stone boat;  a gravy boat'"

  4. Boat as a noun (chemistry):

    One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

  5. Boat as a noun (AU, politics, informal):

    The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

  1. Boat as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel by boat.

  2. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To transport in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat goods"

  3. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To place in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat oars"

  1. Galley as a noun (nautical):

    A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

  2. Galley as a noun (British):

    A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

  3. Galley as a noun (nautical):

    One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

  4. Galley as a noun (nautical):

    The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

  5. Galley as a noun:

    An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

  6. Galley as a noun (printing):

    An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

  7. Galley as a noun (printing):

    A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

  8. Galley as a noun (heraldiccharge):

    A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.

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