picket boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of picket boat
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Cushing's companions in the picket boat were: Acting Ensign W.L.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
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 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
A special picket boat to rescue crews of C-1 and C-3.
From The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
