Fireship

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA 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."

2.NounA diseased prostitute.

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