patrol boat

1. 1.

   a vessel assigned to patrol an area

   Synonymspatrol ship

   Broadervessel

Questions about patrol boat

What does patrol boat mean?

patrol boat means "a vessel assigned to patrol an area".

What is another word for patrol boat?

Close synonyms include patrol ship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patrol boat a common word?

patrol boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.