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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The name of a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898), in which the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet off the shore of Manila in the Phillipines.
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- noun a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet
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