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boat train
noun
- a train scheduled to carry passengers to or from a landing point:
The boat train to Paris was waiting at Cherbourg.
boat train
noun
- a train scheduled to take passengers to or from a particular ship
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boat train1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
He turned on his heel and stalked haughtily in the direction of the boat train.
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He'd inquire when he got to Rome if they didn't perhaps run a boat-train down, just before sailing time.
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Two days later, as I intended to write you but didn't, I caught the boat-train for Cherbourg.
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There was the sudden excited clamour of many voices and the boat-train, late and overcrowded, had come in!
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He took us to the Gare du Nord, where we would just have time to eat something, and catch the boat train for Calais.
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