Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boat used for work rather than for recreation, transportation, or military purposes.
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- noun A boat used for purposes other than recreation, passenger transport, or
combat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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April 20-21: The Damon Bankston, a 285-foot workboat that was ferrying equipment to the Deepwater Horizon, reports it had picked up 110 crew members, three of them critically injured.
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My windows were open and in my sleep I heard the wind in the trees, a solitary pecan husk rattle on the tin roof, a workboat chugging heavily on the bayou.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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My windows were open and in my sleep I heard the wind in the trees, a solitary pecan husk rattle on the tin roof, a workboat chugging heavily on the bayou.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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The workboat was proceeding south, her wake rippling out toward them in parallel lines on the mirrored surface.
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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There was a big gasoline workboat, gray with a yellow funnel, that she knew was Monohan's.
Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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The crew of the patrol boat then assisted the crew of a small workboat to recover a member of the Woolwich ferry crew who had fallen into the water.
Evening Standard - Home Mark Blunden 2011
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This is a very functional yacht with workboat roots and a style not out of place in Monte Carlo.
Forbes.com: News gCaptain 2011
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The latest in a line of workboats designed by Damen Shipyards, her unique shape is based off the Fast Crew Supplier , a workboat developed to service oil rigs in the rough waters of the North Sea.
Forbes.com: News gCaptain 2011
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Divers are attaching lines to a sunken workboat off Seattle as they prepare to raise it with the help of a 150-ton crane barge.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Waterfront Construction office manager Diede Janel says the 73-foot vessel that sank Friday morning is an old World War II landing craft that was being used as a workboat in Puget Sound near the city's West Seattle neighborhood.
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