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argosy
/ˈɑɹɡəsi/
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What does argosy mean?
noun
- A merchant ship.
- A merchant flotilla, fleet.
- An abundant supply, boatload.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑɹɡəsi/
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There was a wide coast to explore, and an outspread ocean without any trace whatever of the argosy which lay somewhere at its bottom.
My land amounts not to so much in all: That she shall have, besides an argosy That now is lying in Marseilles’ road.
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Some great argosy of the Staten Island fleet swept serenely down to St. George, past Liberty in her soft robe of light, carrying theatred commuters, dazed with weariness and blinking at the raw fury of the electric bulbs.
For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead in bulk.