| 单词 | revenue boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrevenue boat revenue boat n. ΚΠ 1769 Gentleman & Citizen's Almanack 63/2 Inspector of the Revenue Boats. 1846 Knickerbocker 28 244 The revenue-boat from the guardacosta came on board before our sails were furled. 1904 Canad. Mag. Nov. 70/1 The Government had used her as an auxiliary to their revenue boats, in preventing smuggling from St. Pierre and Miquelon. 2007 L. Petersson Rigging 11/1 At one point in the mid-eighteenth century there were some twenty thousand professional smugglers at work but only a pitiful collection of thirty revenue boats. < as lemmas |
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