boarding craft

plural boarding crafts

1. literatureA starship designed to allow soldiers to board an enemy vessel

   Sir, additional contacts. Boarding crafts, and lots of 'em!

   2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Cairo Station

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   ‘Squids,’ the FORCE:space people had called the Ouster boarding craft.

   1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157

   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