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argosy

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ar·go·sy  (ärg-s)
n. pl. ar·go·sies
1. Nautical
a. A large merchant ship.
b. A fleet of ships.
2. A rich source or supply: an argosy of adventure lore.
[Alteration of obsolete ragusye, from Italian ragusea, vessel of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).]
argosy [ˈɑːgəsɪ]
n pl -sies
(Transport / Nautical Terms) Archaic or poetic a large abundantly laden merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships
[from Italian Ragusea (nave) (ship) of Ragusa]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.argosyargosy - one or more large merchant ships    
fleet - a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership


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For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead in bulk.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
But these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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