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Synonyms for u-boats
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : yoo-boht |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈyuˌboʊt |
Définition of u-boats
Origin :- 1916 (said to have been in use from 1913), partial translation of German U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat."
- As in submarine : noun sub
- It was the belief that the destroyer had sunk one of the U-boats.
- Extract from : « In the Flash Ranging Service » by Edward Alva Trueblood
- My own notion of it is that the U-boats have many of us bluffed.
- Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
- It was all interesting—the life in Paris—but it had nothing to do with U-boats.
- Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
- Also he urged the crew to have a special watch out for U-boats.
- Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly
- By this time the lurking U-boats had been dealt with in a most effective way.
- Extract from : « A Lively Bit of the Front » by Percy F. Westerman
- Early in the war the U-boats were faster than the E's by quite two knots.
- Extract from : « The Story of Our Submarines » by John Graham Bower
- All the waters along the coast are infested with the German U-boats.
- Extract from : « War Days in Brittany » by Elsie Deming Jarves
- This was why the U-boats had found it so useful as a rendezvous lately.
- Extract from : « Walking Shadows » by Alfred Noyes
- There is a crew of only twenty men, because they need them for the U-boats.
- Extract from : « Walking Shadows » by Alfred Noyes
- Then it was discovered that German U-boats were doing this work.
- Extract from : « Inventions of the Great War » by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
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