See transport.
·v Transportation; carriage; conveyance. II. Transport ·v Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; raptu...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A private ship hired by government for carrying troops, stores, and munitions of war. The proportion...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. II. Navy ·noun...
Any assembly of ships, whether for commerce or war. More particularly the vessels of war which, belo...
See Plough Yard, Lombard Street, Seething Lane. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Formerly a department under government directed by commissioners, who chartered vessels and appointe...
·add. ·- Prussian blue. ...
·add. ·- A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regula...
On the south side of Crutched Friars and east of Seething Lane. In Tower and Aldgate Wards (Strype, ...
The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Selected mercantile houses, about fourteen, who manage the affairs of officers' pay, prizes, &c., fo...
Bills of removal, transfer, &c., are not negotiable, nor can they be made other use of. ...
The commissioners of the navy collectively considered, but long since abolished. ...
A royal arsenal for the navy. ...
See Navy Office. ...
Certain officers formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the navy, under the direction of t...
Formerly the chief commissioner of the navy board, at which he presided. ...
Two officers who formerly sat at the navy board, being invested with the charge of building and repa...
Superintendent of pay and general accounts of the navy. ...
The officer next in rank and power below the commander. There are several lieutenants in a large shi...
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...
Large magazines where provisions and similar stores are deposited, conveniently contiguous to the ro...
Any seaman can leave his ship for the purpose of forthwith entering into the royal navy; and thus le...