boarding craft

English

Noun

boarding craft (plural boarding crafts or boarding craft)

  1. (science fiction) A starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel
    • 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:
      ‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.
    • 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station:
      Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!
    • 2008 July 26, Jason Fry, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide‎, Dorling Kindersley, →LCCN, page 105:
      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.
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