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Definition of Pinnaces
1. pinnace [n] - See also: pinnace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnaces
Literary usage of Pinnaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"... with bolts the pinnaces and beams from the wreck the party town, May, built
two pinnaces which they named •i • 1-11 i 161°- Patience and Deliverance. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"the Hands: Ravens sent for Virginia; Divers mutinies; Paine executed: Two pinnaces
built. jjO soone as wee were a little setled after our landing, ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"barges, pinnaces, and cutters having, in the day-time of the 7th, been tracked
under cover and unperceived close up to the bank, at night the whole were ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Actions and Occurrents whiles they continued in the Hands : Ravens sent for
Virginia ; Divers mutinies ; Paine executed : Two pinnaces built. 1609. [IV. ix. ..."
5. American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery by Abiel Holmes (1805)
"... of the Virginian colony, as to obtain two ma fail, small pinnaces, in which
fifteen planters with suitable supplies of provision sailed for Virginia. ..."
6. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"... of the Virginia denned for colony, as to obtain two small pinnaces, in which
15 planters, f, with suitable supplies of provision, sailed for Virginia. ..."
7. The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to by Abiel Holmes (1829)
"... solicited Raleigh and Grenville for the relief of the Virginia Designed for
colony, as to obtain two small pinnaces, in which 15 planters, fait? ..."
8. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"A bargain for 2 great galleons and one meaner, and 6 pinnaces. That the Earl of
Leicester do solicit the States to arm a power of ships to attend on the ..."
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