Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A submarine.
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- noun a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
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Examples
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A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat.
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A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat.
Archive 2004-03-01 2004
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Not many of us in the pigboat fleet left either. "
The Savage Horde Ahern, Jerry 1983
hernesheir commented on the word pigboat
A lake steamship or whaleback; a boat with pointed prows and a rounded (arched) deck.
January 13, 2009