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Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc..

Ironclad :: Ironclad (n.) A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.

Seventy-four :: Seventy-four (n.) A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.

Admiral :: Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets..

Ironclad :: Ironclad (a.) Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare..

Storey :: Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like..

Command :: Command (n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer..

Monkeytail :: Monkeytail (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery..

Flag :: Flag (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag..

Mess :: Mess (n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess..

Exercise :: Exercise (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition..

Dockyard :: Dockyard (n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

Britisher :: Britisher (n.) An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service..

Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches..

Conscription :: Conscription (n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Court-martial :: Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law..

Tactical :: Tactical (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

Naval :: Naval (a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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