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Definition of Mosquito boat
1. Noun. A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mosquito Boat
Literary usage of Mosquito boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Chinaman and a Few Others by Edward Harper Parker (1902)
"The mosquito boat was so dirty and uncomfortable that I merely stepped on board
to assure the man in charge of my distinguished consideration; but even this ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1889)
"The mosquito boat will always come up on top, if the eggs have not hatched.
Mosquitoes vary in the length of time they require ere they can come forth to ..."
3. Up and Down the Brooks by Mary Ellen Bamford (1889)
"The mosquito-boat will always come up on top, if the eggs have not hatched.
Mosquitoes vary in the length of time they require ere they can come forth to ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1864)
"Captain JG Walker, of our boat, having been made Flag-Officer, proceeded on board
the mosquito boat Forest Rose, in order to push ahead as rapidly as ..."
5. Influence of the Great War Upon Shipping by Joseph Russell Smith (1919)
"... to submarines and mosquito boat submarine chasers. Extensive contracts for
these last were also let in the United States. This meant that merchant ..."
6. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History, Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"... to submarines and mosquito boat submarine chasers. Extensive contracts for
these last were also let in the United States. This meant that merchant ..."
7. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"... and prepares for an aerial existence; and a contrivance utterly different from
the mosquito boat, yet equally beautiful and effective, ..."
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