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pilot boat

noun

  1. a boat carrying pilots to or from large ships.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pilot boat1

First recorded in 1580–90
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Example Sentences

Again, during the recent racing season, the pilot-boat (about sixty tons) started from Kingstown Harbour for her cruising ground.

Afterward, in a pilot-boat, with fifteen men the boy hero attacked a French privateer with forty men and a barge with thirty men.

But a second pilot-boat could now be seen with her flag, half-hoisted, drooping from the halyards.

He came down close to the pilot-boat, which was ready to put a pilot aboard the approaching steamer.

The pilot-boat was within ten rods of the steamer, curving in gracefully toward the monster, and running like a race-horse.

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