Crossword clues for gunboat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunboat \Gun"boat`\, n.
(Nav.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns, used for operations in shallow waters.
(Nav.) Any small naval vessel carrying mounted guns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) Any of various types of small armed vessel
WordNet
n. a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols
Wikipedia
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
Gunboat is a simulation video game developed and released by Accolade in 1990 for Amiga, DOS, TurboGrafx-16 and ZX Spectrum. It is a combat simulator of a Patrol Boat, River (PBR).
Usage examples of "gunboat".
SIR:--Major-General McClellan telegraphs that he has ascertained by a reconnaissance that the battery at Jamestown has been abandoned, and he again requests that gunboats may be sent up the James River.
French gunboat, Bechamel, disrupted the newts dance on the island of Rawaiwai with three shots.
The information was telegraphed to the Sirdar, who at once ordered that a force of the friendly Arabs, escorted by a gunboat, should go up to Berber to find if the news was true.
The flotilla thus unprotected fell in with seven Turkish gunboats coming from Cairo, and was exposed simultaneously to their fire and to that of the Mamelukes, fellahs, and Arabs who lined both banks of the river.
He had seven ironclads, of which three were larger vessels and four were gunboats built by Eads, a naval constructor with orignal ideas and great executive ability.
Several of the holders have caned on me for permission to pass the blockade, even demanding a gunboat to convey theml Colonel Segar, the last of them, was very importunate.
The knight of Kerry was absent in Dingle, across Dingle Bay from Valentia, but he soon arrived in a Royal Navy gunboat.
The LCI gunboats have halted outside the reef over which amphtracs of Wave 2 are already crawling to begin their last dash through the lagoon.
Light as this armament was in comparison with the smallest gunboat that ever sailed, it was sufficient for them to outfight as well as outfly the German monster airships.
The protectorate government maintains three gunboats on Lake Nyasa, and the British South Africa Company an armed steamer on Lake Tanganyika.
One hundred meters away, the gunboat retracted its landing gear and rose from the roof on repulsorlift power.
The gunboats, sinkable and fully exposed, were rapidly getting the worst of it.
For instance, if that gunboat, with its purple-whiskered Amsterdammer of a captain, should just now happen in.
They bombarded Iwo vigorously on 16 and 17 February, evoking no reply from the defenders until seven LCI gunboats, advancing in line abreast to cover the underwater demolition teams, drew a torrent of gunfire.
Blake knew, at that sound, that Tankred or one of his men was firing straight into the dial of the searchlight, that Tankred himself intended to defy what must surely be an Ecuadorean gunboat.