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Definition of Fire ship
1. Noun. A weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships.
Definition of Fire ship
1. Noun. (historical) A wooden ship set afire and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the intent to set the enemy fleet afire too. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Ship
Literary usage of Fire ship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"A second fire-ship was prepared, but a stiff breeze during the night prevented
the Greeks ... The second fire-ship, prepared in the fleet by John of Parga, ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1857)
"... along the Hudson—Alarms of the People of New York—Benevolent Sympathy of
Washington — The Phoenix Grappled by a Fire-Ship—The Ships Evacuate the Hudson. ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1823)
"The prodigious efforts of the crew at length succeeded in disengaging the admiral's
ship from the fire-ship, after which the ship of the captain bey, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In the case of the destruction of an enemy's vessel of forty guns or more, each
person remaining on board the fire-ship till the service was performed was ..."
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