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Definition of Advice boat

Advice boat
Advice Ad*vice", n. [OE. avis, F. avis; ? + OF. vis, fr. L. visum seemed, seen; really p. p. of videre to see, so that vis meant that which has seemed best. See Vision, and cf. Avise, Advise.] 1. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. --Franklin. 2. Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her? --Shak. 3. Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural. Note: In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; -- used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice. --McElrath. 4. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. --Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others. Syn: Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.
Advice boat
Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped. Advice boat. See under Advice. Boat hook (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. --Totten. Boat rope, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a painter. In the same boat, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] --F. W. Newman.

Meaning of Advice boat from wikipedia

- An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication. The term, derived...
- bought and had built a large number for use in controlling smuggling, as "advice boats" (carrying dispatches), or against privateers.: 56  The characteristic...
- rebuilt in 1699 and wrecked in 1707. HMS Eagle (1696) was a 10-gun advice boat launched in 1696 and wrecked in 1703. HMS Eagle (c.1745 fireship) was...
- in 1796 and last listed in 1799. HMS Advice (1800) was an advice boat launched in 1800 and sold in 1805. HMS Advice (1837) was a paddle packet ship launched...
- boat by a wave, and was rescued. The fifth-rate Mortar-bomb was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands and her entire company of 65 lost. The sixth-rate advice...
- HMS Advice was the second of a class of two schooner-rigged advice-boats of the Royal Navy. Advice was launched in 1800 and commissioned in January 1801...
- advice boat of 77 tons (bm) launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1695, and sold in 1712. HMS Express (1800) was a small, 6-gun schooner-rigged advice boat...
- 'L'Incertain' (1672)". Threedecks. Retrieved 24 August 2019. "Dutch advice boat 'Bruijnvisch' (1672)". Threedecks. Retrieved 24 August 2019. "Danish...
- ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to: HMS Tartan (1692), an advice boat captured from France in 1692 and lost to recapture by France in 1695...
- reports, no. 4. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum. p. 13. "British advice boat Messenger' (1694)". Threedecks. Retrieved 17 November 2019. "British...