picket boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of picket boat
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Johnston, Mary
Their interests had hitherto been concentrated in the string of whalers being towed down to the distant starting-point by a picket boat.
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus
It was found that the seaplanes, when they were loaded with bombs, could not get off a sea that would hardly distress a picket boat.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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