| 单词 |
plate fleet |
| 释义 |
plate fleet Hist. [f. plate n. 15.] The fleet which annually brought the produce of the American silver mines to Spain.
1625in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 68 The rest of the fleet would stay awhile to watch the Plate fleet not yet come home. 1663Cowley Verses Sev. Occas., Adv. of Five Hours, As when our Kings (Lords of the spacious Main,) Take in just wars a rich Plate Fleet of Spain. 1763W. Roberts Nat. Hist. Florida 90 Treasure out of the wreck, where the galleons, or plate-fleet, were cast away. |

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