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- noun nautical A boat having two
hulls .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So all we have to do is amble down to the end of the pier, cut the lashings on an outside twinhull, and take off.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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He looked disdainfully at Scriber and Peregrine, as if they were to blame for not performing surgery aboard the twinhull.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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He could sail the twinhull by himself, but he'd have to be all over to do it; the fewer confusing thought sounds, the better.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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For a moment, he was sailing a twinhull across the South Sea, a newby with Rum as a pup; memories of the island person who had born Rum, and of packs before that.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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The bow-starboard twinhull, the one right next to him by the pier, looked fast and well-provisioned.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Scriber was cutting the braid-bone fasteners that held the twinhull to the rest of the ship.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Peregrine hotfooted it back to the bow-starboard twinhull.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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