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BATTLESHIP |
War vessel |
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FRIGATE |
War vessel |
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UBOAT |
War vessel about to explode |
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CONNING TOWER |
The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
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TWO-DECKER |
A vessel of war carrying guns on two decks. |
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THREE-DECKER |
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. |
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FIRST-RATE |
A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful
class. |
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METAL |
The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel
of war. |
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COCKPIT |
That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded
during an engagement. |
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SHIP |
To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a
man-of-war. |
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DROMON |
In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter;
a large, swift war vessel. |
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WARDROOM |
A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned
officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom. |
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MERCHANTMAN |
A trading vessel; a ship employed in the
transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war. |
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MANOFWAR |
A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp.
one of large size; a ship of war. |
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WAISTER |
A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man,
stationed in the waist of a vessel of war. |
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GALLEY |
A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in
the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. |
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MONITOR |
An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having
one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. |
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FRIGATOON |
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a
mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. |
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RATE |
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined
according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate,
etc. |
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PRIZE |
Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war;
esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a
vessel. |
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SEA LETTER |
The customary certificate of national character which
neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport
for a vessel and cargo. |
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CORVETTE |
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having
usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a
sloop of war. |
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CONVOY |
A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed
in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence,
clothing, etc., and having an armed escort. |
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ORLOP |
The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war,
consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the
cables are coiled. |
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RAM |
A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war
vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a
vessel carrying such a beak. |