pigboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pigboat
Example Sentences
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Ed Richardson runs into just about every heart-stopping jam that a Medal-of-Honor-winning pigboat skipper can get into and out of in the battle against Japan.
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As chief of the Navy's submarine doctors, Captain Alvis had one answer known to any man who ever underwent pigboat training: all submariners are volunteers, and not every volunteer becomes a submariner.
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Retired Navy Captain Charles N. G. Hendrix, an old "pigboat" skipper who is now a professor of oceanography at the U.S.
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The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface.
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Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor.
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