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revenue cutter

revenue cutter

noun

  1. a small lightly armed boat used to enforce customs regulations and catch smugglers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of revenue cutter1

First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences

“After the purchase, Lincoln carried the U.S. delegation for the transfer ceremony. The Revenue Cutter Service becomes the presence of the federal government in the new territory including the transportation of judges, marshals, prisoners, and witnesses; conduct of courts; enforcement of customs and immigration statutes; and enforcement of laws related to fisheries and wildlife,” notes a Defense Department chronology.

She will be the 27th commandant of the service, which traces its roots back to the creation of the Revenue Cutter Service shortly after the Revolutionary War, and merged with the U.S.

Revenue Cutter Bear from 1886 to 1895.

Revenue Cutter Bear, which sank in 1963 about 260 miles east of Boston as it was being towed to Philadelphia, where it was going to be converted into a floating restaurant, was located in 2019.

Coast Guard Academy — founded in 1876 as the “Revenue Cutter School of Instruction” in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with nine determined cadets in the first class.

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