"fireship" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-fireship.ogg [Australia] Forms: fireships [plural]
Etymology: From fire + ship. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fire|ship}} fire + ship Head templates: {{en-noun}} fireship (plural fireships)
  1. (nautical) 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. Categories (topical): Nautical, Prostitution, Sexually transmitted diseases
    Sense id: en-fireship-en-noun-idLDiHIF Disambiguation of Prostitution: 81 19 Disambiguation of Sexually transmitted diseases: 85 15 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 97 3 Topics: nautical, transport
  2. (vulgar, slang) A diseased prostitute. Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-fireship-en-noun-J37K923n
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: hellburner Related terms: fireboat, frenchified, venereal disease

Inflected forms

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