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Cruiser

noun

A car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters. Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car.

A large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer.

A large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board. Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft.

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"Cruiser" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the north Pacific into the Arctic Ocean, through Behring's Straits. He said that in 1857 he gave to the Academy his own observations, and recently he had conferred with Capt. C.L. Hooper, who commanded the U. S. steamer Thomas Corwin, employed as a revenue steam cruiser in the Arctic and around the coast of Alaska. Capt. Hooper confirms the opinions of all previous navigators, every one of which, except Dr. Dall, say that a branch of this warm stream passed northward into the Arctic through Behring's Strait. It is partly deflected ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various

... stumping along behind. He looked out the stern port. A ship all right. A slim cruiser of the D class, the light of faraway suns reflecting against its hull, giving it the ghostly appearance ...

— Before Egypt • E. K. Jarvis

... yacht, for the launching. It's anchored off the yard now. Well, early this morning, while it was still gray and misty, I was up. I'll confess I'm worried over to-morrow. I hadn't been able to forget that cruiser. I was out on the deck, peering into the mist, when I'm sure I saw her. I was just giving a signal to the boat we have patrolling, when a shot whistled past me and the bullet buried itself in the woodwork of the main saloon back of me. ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... Lion, awakened the imagination to the actual fact of the Bluecher turning her bottom skyward before she sank off the Dogger Bank under the fire of the guns of the Lion and the Tiger astern of her, and the Princess Royal and the New Zealand, of the latest fashion in battle-cruiser squadrons which are known as the "cat" squadron. This work brought them into their own; proved how the British, who built the first Dreadnought, have kept a little ahead of their rivals in construction. With almost the gun-power of Dreadnoughts, better than three to two against the best ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... by the tide's flow, Stern Fate has laid King Harald low; The gallant viking-cruiser—he Who loved the isle-encircling sea. The generous ruler of the land Fell at the narrow Limfjord strand. Enticed by Hakon's cunning speech To ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

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