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u-boat
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
OXFORD DICTIONARY
u-boat, n. hist. a German submarine.
Etymology
G U-boot = Unterseeboot under-sea boat
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