| 单词 | ship of advice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasship of advice P4. ship of advice: a light fast boat of a type used to carry dispatches; a dispatch-boat. Similarly pinnace of advice, etc. Cf. Compounds 2. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1617 T. Spurway in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. v. iii. 615 The foure and twentieth of August, 1617. departed from Bantam an Holland ship of aduice directly for Holland. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xxii. 237 A Pinnace of advice that brought the Kings Letters. a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 114 The first Letter sent by a Bark of Advice, was dated the 19th of March, 1617. at Madrid. 1758 H. Doidge Let. 12 Sept. in E. Ives Voy. India (1773) ii. vii. 384 By this you will be better able to take your measures, than by waiting for a boat of advice from hence. 1837 R. Southey Lives Brit. Admirals IV. 49 The three best sailers of the fleet were appointed to run a-head, suspecting the Spaniards would have sent out some caravels of advice. 1898 J. S. Corbett Drake & Tudor Navy I. v. 161 They proved to be nothing worse than Sir Edward Horsey's vessel in company with a Spanish caravel of advice and a shallop which Ranse had taken. 1928 Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. 7 178 In the ship of advice which has now come here, they bring ginger, cinnamon, gold-dust, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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