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
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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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