u-boat

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun u-boat has 1 sense

u-boat(n = noun.artifact) pigboat, sub, submarine - a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes; Array

has particulars: attack submarine, auxiliary research submarine, fleet ballistic missile submarine, nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine

has parts: conning tower, escape hatch, periscope, breather, schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather, asdic, echo sounder, sonar

is a kind of submersible, submersible warship

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

u-boat, n. hist. a German submarine.

Etymology

G U-boot = Unterseeboot under-sea boat

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