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Local participants, called guizers, celebrate their Norse heritage by dressing in Viking gear and marching through the town of Lerwick with battle axes and torches, dragging a ceremonial Viking longboat with them.
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Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
At the end of the procession, the guizers hurl their flaming torches onto the longboat and set it ablaze.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
During the War of 1812, the original lightkeeper’s daughters, Abigail and Rebecca Bates, noticed a British warship approaching and launching a longboat to loot the town for supplies.
—Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
Each colorful tableau is crammed with weird and funny things: giant tomatoes, a waterfall shaped like a teakettle, gnomes in a longboat.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
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Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
At the end of the procession, the guizers hurl their flaming torches onto the longboat and set it ablaze.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
During the War of 1812, the original lightkeeper’s daughters, Abigail and Rebecca Bates, noticed a British warship approaching and launching a longboat to loot the town for supplies.
—Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
Each colorful tableau is crammed with weird and funny things: giant tomatoes, a waterfall shaped like a teakettle, gnomes in a longboat.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longboat
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But though the ship was seaworthy and well-stocked with cargo and supplies, its lifeboat was missing and not a single person was aboard.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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Expected to be a title contender, the Bucks have started 2-7 and have no lifeboats.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Supplies for the season are brought in via a massive barge from Vancouver while fresh produce is brought in weekly.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Sugano also throws a cutter, slider, splitter, sinker and curve.Chuck Murr, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The pair of figures came into and out of focus; in some passages the surface had hyper-similitude, in others a rougher, grooved surface, betraying the involvement of a CNC cutter.Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Dan Campbell — one of the biggest riverboat gamblers the league has ever seen — opted to go for it.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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The space was originally built as the Union Gospel Tabernacle by Captain Thomas G. Ryman, a Tennessean riverboat captain and businessman.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2024
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Note: During the off-season (now), the houseboat is parked in the host’s driveway.Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Altemus understood that the houseboat had been financed by Deering, who knew about the men’s relationship—and how Chalfin bred pedigreed Chow Chow dogs.Julio Capó Jr. & Helena Gomez, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
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Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
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The crew had no time to gather their possessions or weather gear before boarding their small yawl boat, and the ship sank so quickly that a Newfoundland that served as her mascot was unable to escape.Christopher Clough, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
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After narrowing the search area to a 5-square-mile grid, researchers set sail in a 16-foot motorboat on May 12, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Caitlin Looby.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
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Police said the assailants dragged Eastman to a motorboat and sped away.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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While other Time Warner executives would show more ambition in public, Parsons kept things on an even keel.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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However, logistics employment has managed to stay on an even keel even as companies like FedEx, UPS and DHL make their cuts.Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Longboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longboat. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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