advice boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of advice boat
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.
From Project Gutenberg
An advice boat, or dispatch boat.
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Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc.
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The holy alliance soon after took an advice boat that was carrying letters from Madrid to Panama, and despatches from the viceroy of Peru; but both the captain and pilot were bound by an oath rather to die than deliver up their packets or divulge any secret, and had thrown overboard the rolls as well as a casket of jewels.
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Advice′-boat, a swift vessel employed in conveying despatches.—adjs.
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