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Mayday   /mˈeɪdeɪ/   Listen
Mayday

noun
1.
An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider).





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"Mayday" Quotes from Famous Books



... another. A shout would be raised of 'Clubs!' and all the 'prentices would catch up their sticks and pour out of the shops, and then there would be a fight till the city guard turned out and separated them. Then there used to be the shooting at the butts, and the shows, and the Mayday revels, and all sorts of things. The people were more merry than you are here, and much more free. You see, the barons, who are the same to us that your great families are to you, had no influence in the city. You are a nation of traders, and so are we; but in London the traders have the power, ...
— The Lion of Saint Mark - A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century • G. A. Henty
... "No need to hold off on that any longer, the way things are moving. Get on another ComWeb and start putting out those Mayday messages right now! As soon as you've ...
— Lion Loose • James H. Schmitz
... Massachusetts. On the lst of April, 1780, they sailed for a six months cruise, and on the ninth of June, 1780, fought the Admiral Duff until she took fire and blew up. A short time afterwards the Protector was captured by two English ships called the Roebuck and Mayday. ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge


Words linked to "Mayday" :   distress call, distress signal


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