Crossword clues for embarked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embark \Em*bark"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarked; p. pr. & vb. n. Embarking.] [F. embarquer; pref. em- (L. in) + barque bark: cf. Sp. embarcar, It. imbarcare. See Bark. a vessel.]
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
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To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
--South.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: embark)
Usage examples of "embarked".
Edward had just time to escape to Tinmouth, where he embarked, and sailed with Gavaston to Scarborough.
Robert of Artois, who embarked on board a fleet of forty-five ships, and sailed to Brittany.
Edward, soon after concluding this treaty, embarked with his army for England.
The whole was embarked on board the ships, and sent over to England, together with three hundred of the richest citizens of Caen, whose ransom was an additional profit, which he expected afterwards to levy.
But as that nobleman refused all concurrence with them, and as Lord Montague also remained quiet in Yorkshire, they were obliged to disband their army, and to fly into Devonshire, where they embarked and made sail towards Calais.
French officers, who were embarked in the fleet at Brest, consisting of fourteen ships of the line, seven frigates, three fire-ships, with a good number of transports.
He said he expected six thousand men from England, where they were embarked before he set sail.
Though the affairs of Ireland were extremely pressing, and the protestants of that country had made repeated application for relief, the succours were retarded either by disputes among the ministers, or the neglect of those who had the management of the expedition, in such a manner that king James had been six months in Ireland before the army was embarked for that kingdom.
He ordered all the bridges to be broken down behind him, and embarked in a vessel which had been prepared for his reception.
William having constituted the lord Sydney and Thomas Coningsby lords justices of Ireland, and left the command of the army with count Solmes, embarked at Duncannon with prince George of Denmark on the fifth of September, and next day arrived in King road, near Bristol, from whence he repaired to Windsor.
In these he embarked with his troops, and the command of the Irish forces devolved to the duke of Berwick, though it was afterwards transferred to M.
On the sixteenth, however, he embarked at Gravesend with a numerous retinue, and set sail for Holland under convoy of twelve ships of war commanded by admiral Rooke.
William, being apprized of this event, returned to the Hague, embarked for England, and arrived at Whitehall on the thirteenth day of April.
That affair being discussed, he embarked in the Maese, and landed in England on the nineteenth day of October.
King William having settled the domestic affairs of the nation, and exerted uncommon care and assiduity in equipping a formidable fleet, embarked for Holland on the fifth day of March, and was received by the states-general with expressions of the most cordial regard.