Crossword clues for lightship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lightship \light"ship`\, Light-ship \Light"-ship`\(l[imac]t"sh[i^]p`), n. (Naut.) A vessel equipped like a lighthouse, carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable, to serve as a guide for mariners; as, the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica.
Wiktionary
n. A ship equipped with a very large lamp; it can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations, as a sort of portable lighthouse.
WordNet
n. a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
Usage examples of "lightship".
And far on Kish bank the anchored lightship twinkled, winked at Mr Bloom.
I knew only that when I closed my eyes and mastered my fear program, the manifold opened to me, as splendent and deep as ever the manifold from within my lightship had been.
But then, just as he was leisurely defining the homomorphism, phi, the branch of the tree holding up his lightship suddenly snapped this is how it seemed and he was hurled into a rare and quite deadly torison space, of a kind that Lord Ricardo Lavi had once discovered on one of the first journeys toward the Vild.
He was not present in the Lightship Caverns with the other pilots, cetics, tinkers and horologes as I emerged from the pit of my ship.
They journeyed to Nwarth and Alumit and Farfara, but no Merchant-Pilot would ever think of taking a lightship into the Vild.
He glanced over at the ghostly flames flickering in the fireplace, and he remembered how Sivan in his lightship had followed him from Farfara into the Vild.
And he was almost certain that Sivan had survived whatever tests that the Entity had put to him: as before on his journey from Farfara as Danlo moved further and further from the fading stars of the Entity he detected the composition waves of another lightship falling through the manifold.
A single pilot guided each lightship, and together the pilots of Vild Mission would lead the seedships and deepships across the stars.
Solitaire Station, out beyond the orbit of Mars, where the lightships are assembled and launched, vanishing in thousand-mile-long shatterings, and it happened to a man by the name of William Stamey, otherwise known as Barnacle Bill.
It all happened not so along ago on Solitaire Station, out beyond the orbit of Mars, where the lightships are assembled and launched, vanishing in thousand-mile-long shatterings, and it happened to a man by the name of William Stamey, otherwise known as Barnacle Bill.
Akron, largest and finest dirigible airship in the world, crashed off the Barnegat Lightship at 12:30 o'clock this morning with 77 officers and men aboard.
In his lightship, the Cardinal Virtue, he required only three days to reach the Cluster.
Trinity House, as Ryan well knew, was and is responsible for the relief of distressed and aged master mariners, but it also keeps records of all merchant seamen in distress or requiring any kind of help - all the old men with a life at sea behind them and nothing in front - together with its work in erecting and maintaining all lightships and lighthouses and being the chief pilotage authority in Britain.
I'm not fond of smouses," she said, remembering the ones back on the lightship.