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plate ships

plate ships is the plural of plate ship.

Meaning of plate ship

Noun

plate ship (plural plate ships)

  1. (historical) A galleon, especially a Spanish one, carrying a cargo of precious metals and other treasure.
    • Nor had the English Nation any Benefit of the Two Ships taken by Blake in September 1656 off the Coast of Spain; where one was sunk, another burnt, and two broke to pieces on the Shoar; so that of eight Plate Ships, but two got into Cadiz:1697, Roger Coke, chapter 2, in A Detection of the Court and State of England during the Four Last Reigns and the Inter-Regnum, London: Andrew Bell, page 388

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What is plate ships the plural of?
Plate ships is the plural of plate ship.

Words near plate ships in the dictionary

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  2. plate reverb
  3. plate sale
  4. plate sales
  5. plate ship
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  8. plate tectonics
  9. plate up
  10. plate wheel
  11. plate wheels

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