Until the 16th century, variously shaped boats were depicted.

It is built in the shape of a curved, rectangular shaped boat.

Dhows, the strangely shaped boats that carried fisherman and cargo across the water, bobbed peacefully.

At the present stage, the log resembled the crude trough that was used for making tea rather than one of the gracefully shaped boats, but the rough shape had been hacked out.

You can prove this by making various shaped "boats" of the same piece of clay and then SINK the boats in water so that no air is trapped inside the boat.

Based on an 1880s design the blacksmith shop would have wrought all the supplies needed for boat repair such as specialist nails and bolts and the L shaped boat 'knees' used to reinforce the boat structure.

And the Egyptian men and women in their gracefully shaped boats sailing the river, the multicolored fishes of the deep beneath them, the purple-winged birds of the air above.

Shool had given him a quaintly shaped boat and he had sailed away.

In the harbor were many other quaintly shaped boats, mostly fishing craft, some with one large sail, several being sculled-the oarsmen standing and pushing against the sea, not sitting and pulling as he would have done.

Perhaps that begins to explain why Mr. Colombo decided to build such an oddly shaped boat this time around.