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
Yet there I was, as large as life, in a picket boat, with my head still swathed in a bandage, superintending operations, and clearly recognisable with the assistance of a pair of binoculars.
From Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Lumley, Savile
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 Thomas, Hampton Sidney
The officer of the Iris, which was in trouble ahead of the Vindictive, described Captain Carpenter as handling her like a picket boat.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew
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