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Definition of Patrol boat
1. Noun. A vessel assigned to patrol an area.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrol Boat
Literary usage of Patrol boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"It was a patrol boat. [Oct.. "Lobster fisherman from Bentonsport. Lost in the
fog and out of gasolene," he shouted in answer to the hail of a figure on her ..."
2. The United States Navy in the World War: Official Pictures Selected from the by James Clayton Russell, William Emmet Moore (1921)
"... British patrol boat ML 181 going out to meet the American destroyer flotilla
May 4. 1917. The gallant "Wadsworth" entering Queenstown harbor. ..."
3. The North Carolina Criminal Code and Digest: A Complete Code of All the by North Carolina, Thomas Jefferson Jerome, Samuel J. Pemberton, North Carolina Supreme Court (1892)
"(4) The chief commissioner shall pay to the captain of patrol for the rations of
the officers and crew of the patrol boat not exceeding nine dollars per ..."
4. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"Submarine took three boats in tow and for one hour and half towed them north by
east when British patrol boat sighted and submarine cut boats adrift at same ..."
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