Definition of "workboat" [workboat]

• A boat used for work rather than for recreation, transportation, or military purposes. (noun)

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• "April 20-21: The Damon Bankston, a 285-foot workboat that was ferrying equipment to the Deepwater Horizon, reports it had picked up 110 crew members, three of them critically injured."
• "My windows were open and in my sleep I heard the wind in the trees, a solitary pecan husk rattle on the tin roof, a workboat chugging heavily on the bayou."
• "The workboat was proceeding south, her wake rippling out toward them in parallel lines on the mirrored surface."