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Definition of Picket boat
1. Noun. A boat serving as a picket.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picket Boat
Literary usage of Picket boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1865)
"Still further up there was another row of piles with torpedoes, near which a
picket boat was stationed to watch the iron-clad. ..."
2. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (1888)
"Gushing and Howarth, together with those designated as attached to the "Picket-boat,"
were the original seven who brought the boat down from New York. ..."
3. On Two Fronts: Being the Adventures of an Indian Mule Corps in France and by Heber Maitland Alexander (1917)
"When she was hit, a picket- boat happened to be towing two lighters containing
AT carts ... The picket-boat went to the rescue, casting the lighters adrift, ..."
4. The United Service (1904)
"ser was attached to a compensating drum on one picket boat, and the other end
was fixed to a similar arrangement on a second picket boat. ..."
5. The British Fleet in the Great War by Archibald Hurd (1918)
"Each picket boat was equipped with some fine nets of specially fine hard ...
One end of this hawser was attached to a compensating drum on one picket boat, ..."
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