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Definition of Gunboat
1. Noun. A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols.
Definition of Gunboat
1. n. A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.
Definition of Gunboat
1. Noun. (nautical) Any of various types of small armed vessel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gunboat
1. an armed vessel [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gunboat
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunboat
Literary usage of Gunboat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"The De Kalb was detained for a few minutes by a mortar-boat that blocked the
river and kept the gunboat from her position, bnt finally the way was free for ..."
2. Our Inland Seas: Their Shipping & Commerce for Three Centuries by James Cooke Mills (1910)
"The name, Michigan, belonging to a gunboat and registering fourth class among the
... The gunboat, however, is still in service bearing the name Wolverine, ..."
3. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1894)
"634 Reliance, gunboat 98, Iu3. 122 Ray.HW 693 Raleigh, gunboat 157, 162. 167,
369, 392. 708 Republican Party and the War 20 Roby, F. M 343. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"DANISH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF 1884 IN THE gunboat ... is a first-class gunboat
of 500 tons register, with engines of 500 nominal horse-power, ..."
5. The Adventures of a Blockade Runner by William Watson (1893)
"Beyond the shoal which separated this channel from the sea, and very near to the
outer mouth of the channel, lay a gunboat in what we considered a very bad ..."
6. Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Transmitted to the by United States Dept. of State (1870)
"I will call her only the gunboat," and he never called her anything else ...
I saw tliat gunboat." This ie in answer to his own counsel, my learned friend ..."
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