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fire ship

fire ship is the alternative form of fireship.

Meaning of fireship

Noun

fireship (plural fireships)

  1. (historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.
    • Fireships were famously used by Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588.
    Synonyms:
    brulot
  2. (slang, vulgar) A diseased prostitute.

Forms of fire ship

pluralfire ships

Questions about fire ship

What is fire ship the alternative form of?
Fire ship is the alternative form of fireship.

Words near fire ship in the dictionary

  1. fire science
  2. fire screen
  3. fire screens
  4. fire service
  5. fire services
  6. fire ship
  7. fire ships
  8. fire shirt
  9. fire shirts
  10. fire shovel hat
  11. fire sign

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire ship (page history and authors); fireship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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