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picket boat
noun
- a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of picket boat1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
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Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.
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Through their night-glasses they saw a picket boat with rapid-fire guns lying close in the shadows of the shore.
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This boat was later further demolished by a gallant British picket-boat attack.
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A picket boat steamed by the coast twice a day, north after dawn and south before sunset.
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