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pilot boat
noun
- 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.
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Afterward, in a pilot-boat, with fifteen men the boy hero attacked a French privateer with forty men and a barge with thirty men.
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But a second pilot-boat could now be seen with her flag, half-hoisted, drooping from the halyards.
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He came down close to the pilot-boat, which was ready to put a pilot aboard the approaching steamer.
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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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