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Definition of Predy
1. a. Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship.
Definition of Predy
1. Verb. (transitive) (nautical) To make ready. ¹
2. Adjective. (nautical) Ready for action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predy
1. to make ready [v PREDIED, PREDYING, PREDIES] - See also: ready
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predy
Literary usage of Predy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"And, that the enemy might not be able to take advantage, a party of dragoons was
fent to keep predy-bridge, until the army was palled beyond it. ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"... as of the right sometimes given in a mortgage-deed to the mortgagee, of having
the refusal, if the property should be sold. predy, or Priddy. ..."
3. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 by Julian Stafford Corbett (1905)
"That the hold in every ship should be rummaged and made predy,2 especially ...
And likewise to make the hold predy is to bestow everything handsomely there ..."
4. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"A word formerly used in our ships for "get ready;" as, " predy the main-deck,"
or get it clear. PRE-EMPTION. A right of purchasing necessary cargoes upon ..."
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