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flota|ˈfləʊtə|
[a. Sp. flota fleet.]
1. The name given to the Spanish fleet which used to cross the Atlantic and bring back to Spain the products of America and the West Indies. Also gen.
1690Child Disc. Trade Pref. B. iv b, The arrival of the Spanish Flota. a1763Shenstone Elegies xiv, What envy'd flota bore so fair a freight? 1796Nelson 28 Sept. in Nicolas Disp. II. 284, I believe I can destroy their Flota.
¶2. ? erroneous use. A floating barrier (see quot.).
1777Watson Philip II, II. xix. 180 For the greater security of..the work, a flota, one thousand two hundred feet long, was constructed of barks, bound together..with..beams pointed with iron, resembling a file of pikes. |