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- noun Plural form of
longboat .
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Examples
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I skipped the details of the horrific trip in longboats, where the few survivors only lived because of cannibalism.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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I skipped the details of the horrific trip in longboats, where the few survivors only lived because of cannibalism.
Archive 2004-07-04 Michael Evans 2004
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I skipped the details of the horrific trip in longboats, where the few survivors only lived because of cannibalism.
Archive 2004-07-01 Michael Evans 2004
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With a force of 300 Viking longboats, Harald set sail for England.
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Unaware of the approaching threat, Harald left many of his troops behind to guard the longboats while he camped at Samford Bridge.
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In the tiny village of Ban Son Kouo, we ditched our bikes and hired local wooden longboats -- shallow river runners as wide as canoes and as long as pickup trucks -- to take us up the narrow Nam Neun River in search of tigers.
Off the Beaten Track Finn-Olaf Jones 2010
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History and folklore sit cheek by jowl and, in the untamed landscape, it's easy to picture the arrival of Vikings in longboats, clansmen clashing broadswords or even mermaids seducing foolish suitors to a watery death.
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I wonder who was in the longboats, and who belonged to the new plane wreckage – could that be the Oceanic Six?
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He beached his vessel, got his crew into longboats, and prepared to dynamite the ship rather than let her fall to the enemy.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The dominant figure here was John Brown, the leading merchant in town and a man of consuming passions who in 1772 had personally led a fleet of longboats in a midnight raid on the British revenue ship Gaspee.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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