pilot boat

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   a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships

   Broaderboat

Questions about pilot boat

What does pilot boat mean?

pilot boat means "a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships".

Is pilot boat a common word?

pilot 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.