picket boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of picket boat
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Breasting slowly up the Patapsco River came a Coast Guard picket boat, opened fire with its single small forward gun as cannon from the fort returned rounds of blanks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boatswain James R. Ingraham, commanding a Coast Guard picket boat, shouted through the gloom of an early Florida morning last week at a fast little craft he had spotted on Biscayne Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shore batteries, the Minnesota, the picket boat Zouave, kept up a heavy firing all the while upon the Merrimac, upon the Raleigh and the Jamestown, and also upon the Beaufort.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton
Out in front of me was a picket boat, and the officer hailed me to know what was the matter.
From Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac by Hampton Sidney Thomas
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