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Definition of Longboats
1. longboat [n] - See also: longboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longboats
Literary usage of Longboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: The Poetry Pathos, and Humour of the by Charles Napier Robinson (1909)
"Maybe you will see as great a concourse of people as there is at a general's when
he returns victorious ; barges, pinnaces, Deal yawls, and longboats ..."
2. Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont by Vermont, Vermont Conventions, 1775-1777, Vermont Council of Safety, 1777-1778, Vermont Governor, Vermont Board of War, 1779-1783 (1878)
"Murray with a British force crossed the line on the 30th of July with two war
sloops, three gunboats, and forty-seven longboats, with over fourteen hundred ..."
3. Vermont: A Study of Independence by Rowland Evans Robinson (1892)
"Two gunboats and the longboats then proceeded to Swanton, where they destroyed
some old barracks and plundered several citizens, and committed similar ..."
4. The Publications of the Champlain Society by Champlain Society (1908)
"... can only be made by longboats, and even with them it is necessary to be on
the lookout for the channel or canal from the entrance of the Little Passage. ..."
5. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... offer with some land companies in longboats to surprise the rest of the Spanish
fleet in time lest they should burn themselves, as they did afterwards. ..."
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