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Definition of Minelayer
1. Noun. Ship equipped for laying marine mines.
Definition of Minelayer
1. Noun. A ship that lays mines or one designed or intended to lay mines. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Minelayer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Minelayer
Literary usage of Minelayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The officers and crews of the minelayer Pruth were subjected to a rigid ...
On the next day the minelayer Pruth left Sebastopol and steamed southward. ..."
2. Sea-power in the Pacific: A Study of the American-Japanese Naval Problem by Hector Charles Bywater (1921)
"They comprised one large minelayer, two medium and two small ocean-going boats,
... The large minelayer, submarine Ol, completed during 1918 as the German ..."
3. The New York Times Current History of the European War (1915)
"The officers and crews of the minelayer Pruth were subjected to a rigid ...
On the next day the minelayer Pruth left Sebastopol and steamed southward. ..."
4. Publications by National Bureau of Standards, United States, Michael Joseph Connolly, William Francis Galvin (1920)
"As all British minelayers were constantly employed elsewhere, the Admiralty
approached Vice Admiral Sims on the subject of lending a United States minelayer ..."
5. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... Bosporus.13 In the attack the Russian minelayer Prut, carrying 700 mines, was
sunk by a Turkish cruiser. Sebastopol, the stronghold which in the Crimean ..."
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