Crossword clues for navies
navies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navvy \Nav"vy\, n.; pl. Navies. [Abbreviated fr. navigator.] Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]
Navy \Na"vy\; n.; pl. Navies. [ OF. navie, fr. L. navis ship. See Nave of a church.]
A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. ``The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir.''
--1 kings x. 11.The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.
The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.
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same as navy blue.
Navy bean. see Bean.
Navy yard, a place set apart as a shore station for the use of the navy. It often contains all the mechanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.
Wiktionary
n. (navy English)
Usage examples of "navies".
My obligations to naval officers and historians of the United States and other navies are so many and great that I cannot begin to name them.
In 1916, on the eve of war, Congress had passed an act authorizing the building of a navy which, had it been carried out, would have made it the equal to any other two navies of the world.
Rear Admiral Karel Doorman rnn now commanded the Striking Force of the three Allied navies, based at Surabaya.
The major naval effort of the Allied navies in the Atlantic was so employed for two years.
In addition, the Key West Sound School trained 1016 officers and men of seven different foreign Navies during the war.
Few outside the two Navies and merchant marines realized how serious the situation had become in March 1943.
Although the British and Americans landed on different sections of the coast, a close coordination was maintained between upper levels of command, and the two navies got along so well that a more intimate intermingling could be attempted in the next operation.
For three days, 10-12 September, as the tide of battle swept to and fro over the Salerno plain, both navies delivered gunfire support to the troops ashore.
Off shore the two Navies stood by, bringing up supplies and reinforcements, rendering gunfire support, and beating off attacks by the Luftwaffe.
Moreover, the two Navies performed an almost faultless landing, and then played the parts of ferry, feeder and gunfire support.
The Navies also contended with 30-knot Italian torpedo boats which the Germans had taken over.
If the Navies had now failed the merchantmen, there would have been a tonnage slaughter comparable to that of 1942.
These started as early as December 1943 at Slapton Sands and Torquay, Devon 4 The French and Netherlands Navies between them contributed three cruisers, five destroyers and two gunboats.
Australian Navies in the Luzon campaign, mostly due to kamikaze attack, were more than 2000.
GSN from the RMN and serving in other navies were steadily grinding away that particular prohibition.