Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sink-boat or battery used in shooting wild fowl, especially ducks. See battery, 14.

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Examples

  • When I tried to get a little more definite account of the coffin-boat and the dead lady that is given in _The Journal of Occultism_ he simply shrugged his shoulders.

    The Lady of the Shroud Bram Stoker 1879

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