picket boat


noun
  1. a vessel used to patrol a harbor.

Origin of picket boat

1
First 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.

  • 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.

    Historic Adventures | Rupert S. Holland
  • This boat was later further demolished by a gallant British picket-boat attack.

    The Story of Our Submarines | John Graham Bower
  • A picket boat steamed by the coast twice a day, north after dawn and south before sunset.

    The Syndic | C.M. Kornbluth