boat

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Given the brightness of BOAT, they expected the element-forging process to be on vivid display.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 12, 2024

It saturated gamma-ray detectors on multiple space telescopes, earning the nickname the BOAT, short for "brightest of all time."

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023

For 20 men the stations in the boat and at the howitzer will be as follows; if fewer are employed, the higher numbers are to be omitted: BOAT.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

You surely don't mean to stick to your dull fusty old river all your life, and just live in a hole in a bank, and BOAT?

From The Wind in the Willows by Grahame, Kenneth

The agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia was sorely puzzled to know what to charge for a BOAT.

From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)