A boat or small ship used for communication between the vessels of a fleet; a dispatch-boat.
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释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > communication vessel or dispatch boat (9) patache1589 A boat or small ship used for communication between the vessels of a fleet; a dispatch-boat. advicec1595 An advice boat (see compounds 2). Cf. phrases 4. Obsolete. adviser?1616 A dispatch boat, an advice boat; = aviso, n. 3. Obsolete. adviso1624 A dispatch boat; = aviso, n. 3. historical in later use. advice boat1652 attributive. Designating various kinds of light fast boat used as dispatch-boats; esp. in advice boat, advice ship. Now chiefly historical. dispatch1694 An agency or organization for the expeditious transmission of goods, etc.; a conveyance or vessel by which goods, parcels, or letters are dispatched. aviso1714 A dispatch boat, an advice boat. Cf. advice, n. 8 adviso, n. 4. dispatch-boat1794 (see quots.). dispatch-vessel1809 = dispatch-boat n. |
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