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flareships

flareships is the plural of flareship.

Meaning of flareship

Noun

flareship (plural flareships)

  1. A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.
    • Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass.1968 January, Lou Stalsworth, “Night Owl”, in The Airman, volume XII, number 1, page 10

Questions about flareships

What is flareships the plural of?
Flareships is the plural of flareship.

Words near flareships in the dictionary

  1. flarers
  2. flares
  3. flares out
  4. flares up
  5. flareship
  6. flareships
  7. flarest
  8. flareth
  9. flareup
  10. flareups
  11. Flarf

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