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torpedo boat
noun
- a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
torpedo boat
noun
- (formerly) a small high-speed warship designed to carry out torpedo attacks in coastal waters
Word History and Origins
Origin of torpedo boat1
Example Sentences
During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer.
The ugliest of these was a small torpedo boat which stopped us before we were out of the English Channel.
Then we cut across the Solent towards Southsea, watching the weird evolutions of a 35-knot torpedo-boat.
One of the most remarkable of these little steamers is a torpedo-boat built for the United States navy.
It was dusk, but light enough to see an unfamiliar craft, a torpedo-boat in fact, moored to stakes at one side.
Some ships of this description can spurt up to 25 knots—not so long ago considered a high speed even for a torpedo boat destroyer.
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