| 单词 | a navy of ships |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa navy of ships (also galleys) b. In a navy of ships (also galleys). Now rare. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 1128 Wher that a gret Navye lay Of Schipes. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 104 (MED) In þe whilk citee es a grete nauee of schippez. c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 15 (MED) The seyd towne was beseged by the Frenshe partye by lond and also by see, wyth a grete navye of carekys, galeyes, and shyppis off Spayne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. xi. F With a greate nauy of shippes. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 38 Alfred lost a great Nauie of Ships. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 97 The Roman Navie of Gallies. 1664 J. Dryden Rival Ladies iv. iii. (heading) Through a Rock is discover'd a Navy of Ships Riding at a distance. 1811 J. Cottle Fall of Cambria (ed. 2) I. ii. 33 At length he incountered a small navy of ships. 1948 R. Jeffers Double Axe 140 Forty thousand men's labor and a navy of ships, to spring a squib Over Bikini lagoon. < as lemmas |
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