| 单词 | flying fleet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying fleet d. Military and Navy. (Sometimes with mixture of sense 5; all the expressions are from French.) Said of a body of troops, or a squadron of ships, designed and organized for rapid movement, as in †flying army, flying brigade, flying column, †flying fleet, flying hospital, flying party, flying squadron. flying artillery: a corps trained to rapid evolutions. flying camp: see camp n.2 2b. flying sap (see quot. 1876). Also flying bridge n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [adjective] > organized for rapid movement volant1548 running1592 velitary1600 expedite1609 flying1665 mobile1879 quick-reaction1961 rapid deployment1967 rapid-reaction1968 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 391 With a flying Brigade marching out of Antwerp. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1974) VIII. 88 We do entend to keep but a flying fleet this year. 1667 London Gaz. No. 181/3 The Flying Army that has been so long designed, will be speedily formed. 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane i. i. 116 He..like a Storm swept with his flying Squadrons all the Plain. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4690/2 A flying Party will encamp in the Neighbourhood. 1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 90 The stores belonging to the Flying Artillery. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 624 The flying columns which go out from Aldershot. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 636 For moving columns..flying hospitals are organized. 1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) Flying sap, a sap formed by placing and filling several gabions at the same time..Also applied to the usual formation of the second parallel in the attack. < as lemmas |
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