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gunboat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | boat |
Examples of gunboat
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Coburn's gunboat couldn't get close enough to launch its rockets over the beach.
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Absolutely nowhere, as the gunboat repelled no less than four boarding attempts.
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Instead of the PT boat at that time being quick and agile, it became a gunboat.
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On board the Danish gunboat, the skipper of the Caspian was lashed to the mast.
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It isn't 1840 when you can just send a gunboat up the Yangtze to get your way.
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All they did was point to the gunboat, indicating that I was to follow their ship.
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American choppers sink one gunboat and disable two others after Iranians open fire.
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This gunboat they had, they took one of those LCMs and put a flat deck on it.
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A Communist gunboat attack on the Nationalist forces was also thwarted as a result.
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- A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols
- A gunboat is a military watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard costal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
- Gunboat is a computer game developed by Accolade in 1990.
- Any of various types of small armed vessel
- Light patrol vessel unarmored for use in shallow coastal waters.
- A small armed WARSHIP of light draft used where the water is shallow, most notably designated River Gun Boat (RGB); see CUTTER, SWIFT BOAT, TANGO BOAT, ZIPPO BOAT, MOSQUITO FLEET, BOAT.
