Usually means: Historical ship filled with explosives.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. fireship: Merriam-Webster
  2. fireship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fireship: Wordnik
  4. fireship: Wiktionary
  5. Fireship (song), Fireship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. fireship: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fireship: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fireship: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fireship: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fireship)

noun:  (nautical, historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) A diseased prostitute.

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