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picket boat

noun

  1. 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.

Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.

Through their night-glasses they saw a picket boat with rapid-fire guns lying close in the shadows of the shore.

This boat was later further demolished by a gallant British picket-boat attack.

A picket boat steamed by the coast twice a day, north after dawn and south before sunset.

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