Longboat in example sentence

Clinging to the stempost, Ned Land thrust his harpoon again and again into the gigantic animal, which imbedded its teeth in our gunwale and lifted the longboat out of the water as a lion would lift a deer.

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Would Commander Farragut put a longboat to sea?Could I hope to be rescued?

An excellent longboat, light and unsinkable, which is used for excursions and fishing trips."

I insert myself through this double opening into the longboat.

I undo the bolts holding the skiff to the submersible, and the longboat rises with prodigious speed to the surface of the sea.

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