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fire ship
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fire ship
n.
A military vessel loaded with explosives and combustible material and set adrift among enemy ships or fortifications to destroy them.
fire ship
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a vessel loaded with explosives and used, esp formerly, as a bomb by igniting it and directing it to drift among an enemy's warships
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Noun1.fire ship - a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy shipsfire ship - a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships
weapon, weapon system, arm - any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"
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95 Hardcover D215 The fireship was the guided missile of the age of sail.
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In a masterful piece of understatement Seamie Heffernan conceded that he had seen the others "running around a little bit" and they most certainly did that after Alessandro Volta ran amok in the final furlong causing as many ructions as one of those fireships that the canny Elizabethans used to float into enemy harbours.
O'Brien now making the remarkable seem routine by The Racing Post (London, England)
 
 
 
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