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† navey Obs.
Also 4–5 naueye.
[a. ONF. navey, navei (c 1300 in Godef.), = OF. navoy, navoi:—Lat. type *nāvēt-um, f. nāvis ship.]
a. Ships, shipping.
b. A navy.
c1350Will. Palerne 2719 A gret number of naueye to þat hauen longed. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 343 In a naueye of þre score schippes and tweie. Ibid. VII. 167 Kyng Edward gedred a strong navey. 1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 177, I wolde wete why nowe owre navey fayleth. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. vi. (1885) 123 With owt thaym all the kyngs navey shallnot suffice to borde with carrikkes and oþer grete vessailles. 1535Boorde Let. in Introd. Knowl. (1870) 53 A greatt army and navey ys preparyd. |