GUNBOAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gunboat mean? 

• GUNBOAT (noun)
  The noun GUNBOAT has 1 sense:

1. a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols

  Familiarity information: GUNBOAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUNBOAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gunboat" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

 Context examples 

It was he who attacked twelve Spanish gunboats in his one little brig, and made four of them strike to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)