gunboat

English

Etymology

From gun +‎ boat.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌnˌboʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

gunboat (plural gunboats)

1. (nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
   • 2016 February 2, Bill Wurtz, 4:45 from the start, in history of japan‎^[1]:

     Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats (with guns); gunboats.

Derived terms

• gunboat diplomacy
• gunboater
• gunboat war, Gunboat War

Translations

small armed vessel

• Albanian: kanoniera
• Arabic: زَوْرَق مِدْفَعِيَّة f (zawraq midfaʕiyya)
• Armenian: հրետանավակ (hy) (hretanavak)
• Belarusian: канане́рская ло́дка f (kananjérskaja lódka), канане́рка f (kananjérka)
• Bulgarian: канонерка f (kanonerka)
• Catalan: canonera (ca) f
• Czech: dělový člun m
• Danish: kanonbåd c
• Dutch: kanonneerboot (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: kanonboato (eo)
• Finnish: tykkivene (fi)
• French: canonnière (fr) f
• Georgian: საარტილერიო კატარღა (saarṭilerio ḳaṭarɣa), კანონერი (ḳanoneri), ქვემეხიანი ნავი (kvemexiani navi)
• German: Kanonenboot (de) n
• Greek: κανονιοφόρος (el) f (kanoniofóros)
• Hungarian: ágyúnaszád (hu)
• Italian: cannoniera (it) f
• Japanese: 砲艦 (ja) (ほうかん, hōkan)
• Korean: 포함 (ko) (poham)
• Manx: baatey gunn m
• Norwegian: kanonbåt c
• Polish: kanonierka (pl) f
• Portuguese: canhoneira (pt) f
• Russian: каноне́рская ло́дка (ru) f (kanonérskaja lódka), канонерка (ru) (kanonerka)
• Slovene: topnjača f
• Spanish: cañonera f, cañonero m
• Swedish: kanonbåt (sv) c
• Tagalog: bapor kanyonero
• Thai: เรือปืน
• Turkish: gambot (tr)
• Ukrainian: каноне́рський чо́вен m (kanonérsʹkyj čóven), каноне́рка f (kanonérka)

See also

• cutter
• monitor
• mortar barge
• patrol boat
• torpedo boat

Further reading

• “gunboat n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• bang out