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boat train

noun

  1. a train scheduled to carry passengers to or from a landing point:

    The boat train to Paris was waiting at Cherbourg.



boat train

noun

  1. a train scheduled to take passengers to or from a particular ship


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boat train1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

He turned on his heel and stalked haughtily in the direction of the boat train.

He'd inquire when he got to Rome if they didn't perhaps run a boat-train down, just before sailing time.

Two days later, as I intended to write you but didn't, I caught the boat-train for Cherbourg.

There was the sudden excited clamour of many voices and the boat-train, late and overcrowded, had come in!

He took us to the Gare du Nord, where we would just have time to eat something, and catch the boat train for Calais.

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