jolly boat

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   a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work

   Synonymsjolly

   Broaderyawl

Questions about jolly boat

What does jolly boat mean?

jolly boat means "a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work".

What is another word for jolly boat?

Close synonyms include jolly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jolly boat a common word?

jolly boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.