gunboat

Converse of object

• send: The Government even sent a gunboat to Rousay to ensure that things didn't spill over into an all-out revolt.
• include: The jobs in hand included six gunboats and the contract for Westminster Bridge in London, which was built in 1862.
• torpedo: In 1913 a trial was conducted using a false bow, representing a torpedo gunboat, fitted to an old vessel called Mastiff.
• use: In the 19th century Britain and America used gunboats to force open China and Japan to trade on their terms.
• command: During the China War in 1860 he commanded the gunboat Confucius employed in the rivers.

Adjective modifier

• Icelandic: The Icelandic gunboat is risking getting a stem packed with ice in a very tender spot from the trawler steaming at high speed.
• German: On August 11th Laupepa was returned by German gunboat from the Marshalls, landed at Apia and turned adrift to his own devices.
• British: Like the opium forced upon a reluctant China by British gunboats, once you've started using GM, you're stuck with it.
• twin-screw: A view showing the 1898 class twin-screw gunboat ' Sultan ' moored at Wad Hamid.
• small: One of our small gunboats had gone up the Calabar river, and while there the surgeon died of coast fever.

Modifies a noun

• diplomacy: New forms of ' gunboat diplomacy ' are rampant.
• Christianity: The pretense that only other people were guilty of gunboat Christianity was part of the rhetoric of Empire.
• fleet: It will only be content when its own gunboat fleet, flying " ring of stars " flags, is enforcing its fisheries policies.

Noun used with modifier

• motor: On moonless nights motor gunboats slipped across the Channel to pickup points on the Breton coast.
• screw: Bramble The sixth Bramble was a 6-gun screw gunboat, launched at Belfast in 1886.
• class: The third Ant was an Ant class gunboat, launched 1873 and scrapped 1926.
• river: And what about those extraordinary operations of armored trains and river gunboats far from the sea during the Russian Revolution?