Crossword clues for argosy
argosy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Italian (nave) Ragusea "(vessel) of Ragusa," maritime city on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic (modern Dubrovnik in Croatia). Their large merchant ships brought rich Eastern goods to 16c. England. The city name sometimes was Aragouse or Arragosa in 16c. English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A merchant ship. 2 A merchant flotilla, fleet. 3 A collection of lore.
WordNet
n. one or more large merchant ships
Wikipedia
Argosy, later titled The Argosy and Argosy All-Story Weekly, was an American pulp magazine from 1882 through 1978, published by Frank Munsey. It is the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a children's weekly story–paper entitled The Golden Argosy.
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 a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership.
It is derived from the 16th century city Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, in Croatia), a major shipping power of the day and entered the language through the Italian ragusea, meaning a Ragusan ship. The word bears no relation to the ship Argo from Greek mythology (Jason and the Argonauts).
Since "argosy" and "odyssey" sound alike and both refer to ships or voyage by ship ("odyssey" refers to Odysseus' journey, not to his ship, which goes unnamed in Homer's Odyssey), occasionally "argosy" is misused as a synonym for "odyssey", namely as an adventure.
The word Argosy may refer to:
- argosy, an English term for a flotilla
- a merchant vessel
- Argosy (magazine), an American pulp magazine
- Argosy (UK magazine)
- Argosy Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica
- Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a 1920s British airliner
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy, a late 1950s British civilian cargo aircraft
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, a 1960s British military transport aircraft
- Argosy, the space-navy branch of the Systems Commonwealth's High Guard from the science fiction television series Andromeda
- Argosy Special Operations, an elite branch of the same
- a 1970s brand of travel trailer and recreational vehicle created by the Airstream Company
- Argosy Gaming Company
- Argosy University, American 19-campus system.
- two spaceship types in the Escape Velocity game series by Ambrosia Software
- Argosy, a visiting merchant ship to the fishing village in the single-player mode of Monster Hunter Tri
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a steamship in service with Compagnia de Navigazione Phoenix, Panama, from 1957 to 1958 and Codemar Compagnia de Empresas Maritimas, Panama, from 1958 to 1960
- Argosy, a brand of Freightliner Trucks
- Argosy Wind Power, a wind turbine manufacturer
Argosy magazine (also known as The Argosy) was the title of three magazines published in the United Kingdom, one in the late 19th century, another in the middle of the 20th century, and the other, very briefly, in the early 21st century.
The original Argosy was founded by Alexander Strahan in 1865, and later owned and edited by Ellen Wood. It ran until 1901.
A later British Argosy was a short story magazine in paperback size focusing on reprints, and was published from 1926 to 1974. It published stories and serials by leading authors, plus page-fillers of ostensibly amusing quotations, excerpts and cartoons. Joan Aiken worked as Features Editor on the magazine from 1955 to 1960. Lord Dunsany, Ray Bradbury H. E. Bates, Victor Canning, C. S. Forester, Pamela Hansford Johnson and Gerald Bullett were among the writers whose material appeared in Argosy.
A third United Kingdom-based magazine of short stories titled Argosy published two volumes, one dated December 2013 and the other February 2014.
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.