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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 shipsplay

  Familiarity information: PILOT BOAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PILOT BOAT (noun)


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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