Usually means: Vessel set ablaze for attack.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire ship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. fire ship: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fire ship: Vocabulary.com
  4. fire-ship, fire ship: Wordnik
  5. fire ship: Wiktionary
  6. fire ship: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Fire ship, fire ship: Dictionary.com
  8. Fire ship (disambiguation), Fire ship, The Fire Ship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. fire ship: Rhymezone
  10. Fire-ship: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. fire ship: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fire ship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fire ship: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fire-ship, fire ship: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire ship: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fire_ships as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fire ship)

noun:  Alternative form of fireship [(nautical, historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.]

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