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  1. fireshipnoun

    A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.

  2. fireshipnoun

    A diseased prostitute.

  3. Etymology: From fire + ship

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fireshipnoun

    A ship filled with combustible matter to fire the vessels of the enemy.

    Etymology: fire and ship.

    Our men bravely quitted themselves of the fireship, by cutting the spritsail tackle. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

Wikipedia

  1. fireship

    A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create panic and make the enemy break formation. Ships used as fire ships were either warships whose munitions were fully spent in battle, surplus ones which were old and worn out, or inexpensive purpose-built vessels rigged to be set afire, steered toward targets, and abandoned quickly by the crew. Explosion ships or "hellburners" were a variation on the fire ship, intended to cause damage by blowing up in proximity to enemy ships. Fireships were used to great effect by the outgunned English fleet against the Spanish Armada during the Battle of Gravelines, the Dutch raid on the Medway, Chinese warlord Sun Quan in the Battle of Red Cliffs, and by the Greeks in their war of independence.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fireship in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fireship in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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