small boat - a boat that is smallboat - a small vessel for travel on water canoe - small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with a paddle coracle - a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain dinghy, dory, rowboat - a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled gig - long and light rowing boat; especially for racing racing boat - a boat propelled by oarsmen and designed for racing skiff - any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor yawl - a ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars) |