Definitions for fire-ship

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fire-ship fire ship

Fire-Ship is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in fire-ship (-efhiiprs).

Definitions for fire-ship

noun

1. a vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives, ignited, and set adrift to destroy an enemy's ships or constructions.

Origin of fire-ship

First recorded in 1580-90

Examples for fire-ship

Nevertheless many ships drifted from their course; fourteen of them were found by a fire ship and conducted to Halifax.

On the following night July 28th, the French tried to destroy the British fleet by a fire ship.

Giving his fire ship a mighty shove he sent it directly between the scows and then he made a great dive down and away.