flotan.
/ˈfləʊtə/ 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.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet
armada1588
flote1673
flota1690
Home Fleet1705
home guard1712
Channel Fleet1741
Grand Fleet1914
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade Pref. sig. B4v The arrival of the Spanish Flota.
a1763 W. Shenstone Elegies xiv, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 34 What envy'd flota bore so fair a freight?
1796 Ld. Nelson 28 Sept. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 284 I believe I can destroy their Flota.
2. A floating barrier (see quot. 1777).
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > in a river
heck1424
flota1777
blockade1871
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign 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.
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