"rocket ship" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Rocketry",
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      "glosses": [
        "A spacecraft propelled by a rocket engine."
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          "spacecraft",
          "spacecraft"
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          "rocket engine"
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          "ref": "1837, William James, The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV, volume 6, London: Richard Bentley, page 320",
          "text": "At about 3 P.M., the four bomb-vessels and rocket-ship weighed, and stood further in; the latter, to give effect to her rockets, much nearer than the others.",
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          "ref": "2006, Norman Davies, No simple victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, page 447",
          "text": "And there was a further group, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), who had been a POW in Germany, and William Golding (1911–93), who had commanded a Royal Navy rocket ship, who were propelled by the ordeals of war to examine the complexities of human nature and human society.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A ship armed with rockets."
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          "armed",
          "armed"
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          "rocket",
          "rocket"
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  "word": "rocket ship"
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