Word.ws English Dictionary

guard ship

guard ship noun: a warship stationed at a port etc. to act as a guard.

Noun

guard ship (plural guard ships)

  1. A warship stationed at a port etc. to act as a guard.
    • He was pronounced guilty, and sentenced to confinement on board a guard ship, and in forty days to be sent with his family to England.1832, William Allen, An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, page 209
    • Vessels after having been visited by the guard ship in Monvik and taking route toward Reval, must, for the second time, pass the guard ship near island Wulf for delivery of permission of the previous mentioned guard ship and then continue their route, according to orders of this guard ship.1919, George Grafton Wilson, International Law Situations, page 137

guard ship meaning in Tamil

guard ship in Tamil

காவற்கப்பல்

Examples of guard ship in a sentence

  • The narrator describes — in what could be exaggeration — what newly pressed sailors discovered when they were hauled aboard a guard ship to wait for orders.1999, Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity, page 23:
  • With the guard ship Shubrick gone, the commanding officer of Alcatraz assumed guard duty to make sure that no hostile foreign warships entered the bay.2007, C. Douglas Kroll, "Friends in Peace and War": The Russian Navy's Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco, page 67:
  • He could not trust untried young men to act rationally if they were unaware and the guard ship arrived and matter-of-factly attempted to board one of them.2011, Murray Leinster, The World is Taboo, page 122:

Forms of guard ship

pluralguard ships

Questions about guard ship

What does guard ship mean?
Guard ship means a warship stationed at a port etc. to act as a guard.
What is guard ship in Tamil?
Guard ship in Tamil is காவற்கப்பல். See Guard ship meaning in Tamil.
How do you use guard ship in a sentence?
The narrator describes — in what could be exaggeration — what newly pressed sailors discovered when they were hauled aboard a guard ship to wait for orders.
What part of speech is guard ship?
Guard ship is a noun.
What is the plural of guard ship?
The plural of guard ship is guard ships.

Words near guard ship in the dictionary

  1. guard one's tongue
  2. guard post
  3. guard posts
  4. guard rail
  5. guard rails
  6. guard ship
  7. guard ships
  8. guard station
  9. guard stations
  10. guard stone
  11. guard stones

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: guard ship (page history and authors); guard ship (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “guard ship.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/guard_ship. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.