| 单词 | plate ship |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplate ship plate ship n. a vessel carrying silver, esp. a Spanish ship of the plate fleet (plate fleet n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying ore or metal tinman1611 plate ship1624 assogue1692 ore-carrier1853 1624 Weekely Newes No. 7. (title) The Hollanders fortunately meeting with one of the King of Spaines Plate Ships comming from the West-Indies the which in a short time they ouercame and tooke. 1884 Sat. Rev. 14 June 770/2 The Spanish Government also might..sell a concession to raise the plate-ships sunk in Vigo Bay. 1989 R. L. O'Connell Of Arms & Men viii. 138 ‘El Draque’ became virtually the devil incarnate to Spaniards who plied the seas, intercepting plate ship after plate ship and even further disrupting the staggering Iberian economy. < as lemmas |
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