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water boat

noun

  1. a vessel for supplying ships with fresh water.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of water boat1

First recorded in 1720–30

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Example Sentences

We have not in the above brief statement described all the efforts to invent a satisfactory under-water boat.

In half an hour a water boat was alongside the Josephine, filling up the water tanks and casks.

In the meanwhile, the pumps on board a water-boat had stopped clanking and she was towed towards the harbor.

The tug should have come for us, but she is taking the water boat to the English steamer.

The under-water boat was not operated by machinery, but by certain mystic words uttered by Coo-ee-oh.

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