picket boat
noun
a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
Origin of picket boat
1First recorded in 1865–70
Words Nearby picket boat
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How to use picket boat in a sentence
Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonLeft on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThrough their night-glasses they saw a picket boat with rapid-fire guns lying close in the shadows of the shore.
Historic Adventures | Rupert S. HollandThis boat was later further demolished by a gallant British picket-boat attack.
The Story of Our Submarines | John Graham BowerA picket boat steamed by the coast twice a day, north after dawn and south before sunset.
The Syndic | C.M. Kornbluth
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