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jolly-boat|ˈdʒɒlɪbəʊt|
[Known only from 18th c.: origin uncertain.
It has been supposed to be a perversion of jolywat or gellywatte, an earlier name app. for the same or a similar ship's boat of small size. On the other hand the first element bears a strong (written) resemblance to a name (of unknown origin and uncertain age) applied to small boats of various kinds in many Teutonic langs.: e.g. Da. jolle (17th c.), Sw. jol, jolle, julle, LG. jolle, jölle, gölle, gelle (in Fischer 1741 jol or jelle, Brem. Wbch. jelle, E. Fris. jül, jülle, Wang. jel), Du. jol (1682 in Winschooten; Hexham, 1678, has the dim. jolletjen ‘small bark or boat’). But in all these langs. the j is = Eng. y, and the actual corresponding word is F. yole, Eng. yawl. (An alleged F. jol, jelle, seems only to be the Teutonic word mentioned as a foreign word in an Encyclopédie of the 18th c.) Hence the exact historical relations of these words remain unascertained.]
A clincher-built ship's boat, smaller than a cutter, with a bluff bow and very wide transom, usually hoisted at the stern of the vessel, and used chiefly as a hack-boat for small work.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Boat, The several boats, and their names are, a jolly boat, a long boat,..a yaul, boats for ships. 1775Dalrymple in Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 397 Sent jolly boat and yawl in search of him. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 51 A little round Dutch boat, shaped not unlike a tub, which had formerly been the jolly-boat of the Goede Vrouw. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 9 Jolly boat or dingey, is used on all calls for market, or going round the ship squaring yards, or for any similar purpose. |