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Lightship   /lˈaɪtʃˌɪp/   Listen
Lightship

noun
1.
A ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable.





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"Lightship" Quotes from Famous Books



... the edge of the sea and wet sand slapped his boots. The new air greeted him, harping in wild nerves, wind of wild air of seeds of brightness. Here, I am not walking out to the Kish lightship, am I? He stood suddenly, his feet beginning to sink slowly in the quaking soil. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... alone, listening to the ka-choof, ka-choof of the exhaust, the murmuring swash of calm water cleft by the Bluebird's stem. Away to starboard the Ballenas light winked and blinked its flaming eye to seafaring men as it had done in his father's time. Miles to port the Sand Heads lightship swung to its great hawsers ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair


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