dispatch boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dispatch boat
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy.
From Time Magazine Archive
It proved to be a Confederate dispatch boat on its way up the river to warn the fleet that Sherman and his army had arrived.
From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Hinkley, Julian Wisner
Next time we met was on the Times dispatch boat on the Yellow Sea.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack
Wharton. ÷ boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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