boatlift

== English == === Etymology === From boat +‎ lift. === Noun === boatlift (plural boatlifts) The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people. Alternative form of boat lift (“mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another”). === Verb === boatlift (third-person singular simple present boatlifts, present participle boatlifting, simple past and past participle boatlifted) (transitive) To transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.