Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tea-ship.
Examples
-
Philadelphia the tea-ship was met and sent back to England without being allowed to come to anchor.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
-
From B.J. Lossing, Esq. Cocked hat, worn by Lemuel Lyon on board the tea-ship in Boston harbor.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson
-
At the instant that the naval lieutenant jumped into her rigging with his men, another discharge of the Armstrong guns swept her decks, and the schooner, impelled by the calm, which makes floating surfaces approach each other on the water, ranged up alongside the tea-ship.
-
The general opinion was that the sailor, who was traced to a tea-ship that had put into the harbour, had stolen it from some Chinese passenger; and no less than seventeen different Chinamen came forward to claim it as their stolen property.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
-
New York refused to allow the tea-ship "Nancy" to enter the harbor, and if some tea was eventually landed under the cannon of a man-of-war, it was only to be locked up as in Charleston, and to be left to lie unused.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
-
"What was best to be done" proved to be to compel the tea-ship to return at once with its cargo to England.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
-
At Philadelphia the tea-ship was met and sent back to
The War of Independence John Fiske 1871
-
"Say two muchee big junk in river going to sail, catchee tea-ship, lice-ship, silkee-ship."
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
-
Nothing now remained but to keep up a proper correspondence and connection with the other Colonies, and to take all prudent and proper precautions on the arrival of the tea-ship.
-
[38] James Hall, captain of the "Dartmouth," the first tea-ship to arrive in America, was a Boston loyalist, and was consequently proscribed and banished in 1778.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.