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Gunboat

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gunboat"

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Word	Definition
warshipnoun	Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
motorboatnoun	(nautical) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.
boatnoun	A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
flagshipnoun	(by extension, often attributive) The most important one out of a related group.
gunnoun	A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
launchnoun	The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
patrolnoun	(law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
spotlightnoun	(figurative) The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.
starnoun	Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
headingnoun	The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
featurenoun	An important or main item.
superstarnoun	Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.
celebritynoun	(countable) A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
gun boatnoun	Alternative form of gunboat. [(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.]
bumboatnoun	(nautical) A small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour.
logboatnoun	(nautical) A dugout canoe
cockboatnoun	(nautical) A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
monkey boatnoun	(UK, slang) A long, narrow kind of half-decked canal boat.
swiftboatnoun	(usually used attributively) A smear campaign based on specious claims.
galleynoun	(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.