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E-boat

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noun

  1. (in World War II) a fast German boat carrying guns and torpedoes

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Etymology

Origin of E-boat

C20: from enemy boat

Example Sentences

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In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back.

From Time Magazine Archive

The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up.

From Time Magazine Archive

After I left his command he attacked a German E-boat and held his fire trying to take it whole since none had ever been captured, and in the process he got himself sunk.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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