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One or more large merchant ships
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argosy
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An argosy is a merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships. As used by Shakespeare (e.g., in King Henry VI , Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the Merchant of Venice , Act 1, Scene I and Scene III; and in The Taming of the Shrew , Act 2, Scene I), the word means ...
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Argosy \Ar"go*sy\, n.; pl. Argosies . [Earlier ragusy, fr. ragusa meaning orig. a vessel of Ragusa.] A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. --Shak. [1913 Webster] ...
Usage examples of argosy.
He recognized the golden locks and wide-brimmed hat of Captain Tyler Argosy, an old friend, and an army man to the core.
Tyler Argosy talked about the abundance of crops available, about the miracle of growing things throughout the year.
She took a sip of her wine, then smiled brilliantly at Captain Argosy, Sergeant Rice, and Sergeant Culpeper.
You told me that Captain Argosy and Rice and Culpeper went back to the ship.
Tyler Argosy rode out with other men to help take some of the load off the Pattersons.
Tyler Argosy was the first man to stride off the ship, and he was immediately pleased to see her.
Tyler Argosy, or any of the army men from the fort who would have been his escort here on their mission to uphold the law.
There was Tyler Argosy, mounted on a bay, in his military uniform, surrounded by a company of perhaps twenty men, all in uniform.
Tyler Argosy was staring at the group of warriors that had come upon them.
Tyler Argosy explained to Tara how he and the army men at Fort Brooke had been engaged to bring her brother and his family down the river, keeping it all a secret from her.
The effect could be a new, world-wide argosy of trade, with prosperity for now impoverished nations.
I came over here on an argosy, disguised, and travelled this far north in the last few days.
So unwelcome I evidently was aboard that argosy, and so much the object of suspicion myself, I entertained but little suspicion of my shipmates.
I have this regrettable circumstance to thank for those which befell me at the end of the duration, when the argosy eventually came to dock in Sarribad.
My nails had already been lost, my work aboard the argosy having proved too great a task for their loose, rotten condition.