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gunboats

gunboats is the plural of gunboat.

Meaning of gunboat

Noun

gunboat (plural gunboats)

  1. Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
    • Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021

Questions about gunboats

What is gunboats the plural of?
Gunboats is the plural of gunboat.

Words near gunboats in the dictionary

  1. gunboat diplomacies
  2. gunboat diplomacy
  3. gunboater
  4. gunboaters
  5. gunboating
  6. gunboats
  7. Gunbower
  8. gunbright
  9. gunbroke
  10. gunbuck
  11. gunbucked

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