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revenue cutter
revenue cutter
noun
- a small lightly armed boat used to enforce customs regulations and catch smugglers
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Word History and Origins
Origin of revenue cutter1
First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences
There's not wind enough for a schooner to get far away by the time the revenue cutter arrives.
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Sometimes it very closely resembled actual war, as when the smugglers, mounting a small battery, fired openly on a revenue cutter.
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A revenue cutter—this is a port of customs, please remember—lies in the offing.
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Captain Knapp, of the revenue service, had been requested to take me to the spot with the revenue cutter under his command.
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All these notes were made upon the cruise of the revenue-cutter Corwin in 1881.
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