TORPEDO BOAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("torpedo boat" is a kind of...):

combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "torpedo boat"):

mosquito boat; mosquito craft; motor torpedo boat; PT boat (a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat)

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