Dingey Sea Terms The smallest boat carried by a vessel, and is used for all kinds of rough and dirty work. Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock ← Difference of LongitudeAll “D” entriesDingle →