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boarding craft en · NOUN

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  1. A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel
    • ‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft. 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:
    • Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em! 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
    • A Colicoid creation (like the droideka), this Separatist boarding craft looks like a flying spike—until that spike divides into four sharp prongs that can stab through an enemy hull, revealing a central hatch used by a boarding party. 2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:

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