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PILOT BOAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pilot boat mean?
• PILOT BOAT (noun)
The noun PILOT BOAT has 1 sense:
1. a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships
Familiarity information: PILOT BOAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boat to carry pilots to and from large ships
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pilot boat" is a kind of...):
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
Context examples
As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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