workboat
noun
work·boat
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Definition of workboat
: a boat used for work purposes (such as commercial fishing and ferrying supplies) rather than for sport or for passenger or naval service
Examples of workboat in a Sentence
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At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C. — Earl Swift, Outside Online, "The Incredible True Story of the Henrietta C.," 20 June 2018 Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes. — Earl Swift, Outside Online, "The Incredible True Story of the Henrietta C.," 20 June 2018 Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie. — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, "Geoffrey M. Footner, a Baltimore shipping executive and author who wrote about historic Chesapeake Bay vessels," 14 Apr. 2018 Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require. — Eric Lipton, New York Times, "Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’," 10 Mar. 2018 The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes. — Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, "Madisonville drew the boats and crowds for annual Wooden Boat Festival," 27 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'workboat.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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