fire ship

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noun

a vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives, ignited, and set adrift to destroy an enemy's ships or constructions.

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Origin of fire ship

First recorded in 1580–90

Words nearby fire ship

fireroom, firesafe, fire sale, fire screen, fire setting, fire ship, fireside, fireside chat, fireside chats, fire sign, fire station

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How to use fire ship in a sentence

But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
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The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
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Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
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Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
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A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
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A wise man hateth not the commandments and justices, and he shall not be dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
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She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
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It was more like the boarding of a ship than any land fight I had ever seen or imagined.
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British Dictionary definitions for fire ship

fire ship

noun

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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