Boating

The act of transporting in a boat or boats. (Aquatics.) The pastime of sailing boats; as, a boat ing -club, to go a- boating. -A kind of capital punishment practised in Persia, by fastening offenders in a covered boat, and leaving them to perish. Boat'land, in Tenne ee , a post-office of Fentre co. Boat'man, Boats'man, n. ( Naut .) A man who works or manages a boat. "That booby Phaon only was unkind, An ill-bred boatman , rough as waves and wind.' Prior .