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Definition of man-of-war in English: man-of-war(also man-o'-war) nounPlural men-of-war, Plural men-o'-war 1historical An armed sailing ship. 〈史〉军舰 Example sentencesExamples - One meets interesting people at government houses, at messes, clubs, and on board men-of-war, and learns about colonial problems, while avoiding snow, blizzards, and influenza.
- The stronger and longer the wind blows onshore, the more likely men-of-war will be around.
- Modern designers might well pine for a vessel with the nearly unlimited range, comparatively low construction cost, and ease of repair and resupply offered by the sailing man-of-war.
- As we got into position, the guns of men-o'-war in the mouth of the Strait were doing damage, and already the village was burning.
- Jones, a man known for his attention to detail in shipbuilding praised the craftsmanship of the Portsmouth workers when they built the man-of-war, America, in 1782.
2 another term for frigate bird Example sentencesExamples - It is certain that on moonlit nights the man-of-war bird may be seen for hours floating far above the sea.
- Santiago sees a man-of-war bird circling in the sky ahead of him.
- Small birds are altogether absent and, except the ordinary domestic fowl, we found only the tropic or man-of-war bird, petrels, gulls, and a variety of aquatic birds.
- The Eugene Register Guard notes that the island is located three miles off Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, is 20 acres in size, and is home to man-of-war birds and pelicans, lizards, orchids, pineapples, mangos and many, many coconuts.
- William Dampier observes that he remarked that the man-of-war birds and the boobies always left sentinels near their young ones, especially while the old birds were gone to sea on their fishing-expeditions, and that there were a great number of sick or crippled man-of-war birds which appeared to be no longer in a state to go out for provisions.
- Nonetheless, mariners landing in 1803 and 1822 found no inhabitants save ‘cormorants, petrels, gannets, man-of-war birds, and turtles weighing from five hundred to seven hundred pounds.’
Definition of man-of-war in US English: man-of-war(also man-o'-war) nounˈˌman ə(v) ˈwô(ə)rˈˌmæn ə(v) ˈwɔ(ə)r historical 1An armed sailing ship. 〈史〉军舰 Example sentencesExamples - One meets interesting people at government houses, at messes, clubs, and on board men-of-war, and learns about colonial problems, while avoiding snow, blizzards, and influenza.
- As we got into position, the guns of men-o'-war in the mouth of the Strait were doing damage, and already the village was burning.
- Jones, a man known for his attention to detail in shipbuilding praised the craftsmanship of the Portsmouth workers when they built the man-of-war, America, in 1782.
- Modern designers might well pine for a vessel with the nearly unlimited range, comparatively low construction cost, and ease of repair and resupply offered by the sailing man-of-war.
- The stronger and longer the wind blows onshore, the more likely men-of-war will be around.
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another term for frigate bird Example sentencesExamples - Nonetheless, mariners landing in 1803 and 1822 found no inhabitants save ‘cormorants, petrels, gannets, man-of-war birds, and turtles weighing from five hundred to seven hundred pounds.’
- It is certain that on moonlit nights the man-of-war bird may be seen for hours floating far above the sea.
- Santiago sees a man-of-war bird circling in the sky ahead of him.
- William Dampier observes that he remarked that the man-of-war birds and the boobies always left sentinels near their young ones, especially while the old birds were gone to sea on their fishing-expeditions, and that there were a great number of sick or crippled man-of-war birds which appeared to be no longer in a state to go out for provisions.
- Small birds are altogether absent and, except the ordinary domestic fowl, we found only the tropic or man-of-war bird, petrels, gulls, and a variety of aquatic birds.
- The Eugene Register Guard notes that the island is located three miles off Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, is 20 acres in size, and is home to man-of-war birds and pelicans, lizards, orchids, pineapples, mangos and many, many coconuts.
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short for Portuguese man-of-war
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