picket ship

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   a ship serving as a picket

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Questions about picket ship

What does picket ship mean?

picket ship means "a ship serving as a picket".

Is picket ship a common word?

picket ship 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.