Alongside: alternatives and connections

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…

An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is…

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.

The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for…

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonb…

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.

A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in…

Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, ri…