jolly ,
jolly boat ,

"Just what Tom said,'Keep jolly'; but, dear me, how can one, when everything is so stupid and tiresome?"

But I have witnessed PCO's and Police alike being spat at by youths 'out on a jolly'.

It disheartened Dr Daruwalla to see this old-fashioned adjective - a synonym for 'jolly' or 'merry' or 'frolicsome' or 'blithe' - take on a much more serious meaning.

I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit, overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the 'jolly', but someone 'pulled rank' and took my place, thus saving my life and losing his.

She heard the jolly boat come back just before dawn.

Use the jolly boat and we'll have to lower it loaded.

That's what warships have away teams and jolly boats for.

The ocean around the jolly boat underwent an abrupt change.

A glance back showed that by some miracle the jolly boat seemed to be in roughly the right position.

The jolly boat bumped and ground against the sand.

The fact that it was the very same beach on which the Jolly Boat landed is nothing short of miraculous.

He leaped into the jolly boat and whipped the towline off the cleat.

Overall, four had escaped in the jolly boat and another eight had been brought off from the rigging.

Rowing ashore in two jolly boats, he was the first of the party to set foot on Australian soil.

The jolly boat nosed at her stern rope like a puppy just broken to leash.

Ramage nodded and Lacey scrambled down into the jolly boat.

Finally the little jolly boat was hoisted out - rowing four oars, she carried eight armed men.

The term 'jolly boat' has several potential origins.

Bells jangled the instant the jolly boat grounded.

Watching through the ship's glass, he had seen Moonless's jolly boat swallowed by fog arising out of nowhere.

She rowed one stroke, two, three; a wave lifted the keel and coasted the jolly boat forward.

She abandoned the jolly boat where it lay and crossed the sand spit to Callinde.

'You can have six men and the jolly boat, and start at dusk.'

By the time the Jolly Boat made landfall, only two of the seven survivors of the attack were still alive.

Hornblower is set to command the Indefatigables jolly boat.

'Get aft and lower that jolly boat.

Have the jolly boat manned--I'll be on shore for a couple of hours.'

The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Jolly boats were usually the smallest type of boat carried on ships, and were generally between 16 and 18 feet long.