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watchboat

watchboat noun: a patrolling boat.

Noun

watchboat (plural watchboats)

  1. A patrolling boat.
    • "Is your destination Portofino on this evening, good sir?" questioned a local official in the watchboat, as the two ships pulled alongside each other.2010, Andrew J. Farrell, Artifact of Atlantis, page 5

Forms of watchboat

pluralwatchboats

Origin of watchboat

From watch + boat.

Questions about watchboat

What does watchboat mean?
Watchboat means a patrolling boat.
What part of speech is watchboat?
Watchboat is a noun.
What is the plural of watchboat?
The plural of watchboat is watchboats.

Words near watchboat in the dictionary

  1. watchalong
  2. watchalongs
  3. watchback
  4. watchband
  5. watchbands
  6. watchboat
  7. watchboats
  8. watchbox
  9. watchboxes
  10. watchcap
  11. watchcaps

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