fire ship

See also: fireship

English

Noun

fire ship (plural fire ships)

1. (historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.

Translations

wooden ship

• Finnish: polttolaiva (fi)
• French: brûlot (fr) m
• German: Brander m, Brandschiff n
• Greek: πυρπολικό (el) n (pyrpolikó)
• Italian: brulotto (it) m
• Polish: brander (pl) m
• Portuguese: brulote m
• Russian: бра́ндер (ru) m (bránder)
• Spanish: brulote m

Further reading

• fire ship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia