"boarding craft" meaning in English

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