navee

Definitions

Alternative or pronunciation spelling of navy.

alt-of, alternative, archaic, poetic, pronunciation-spelling, rare, uncountable

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Examples

“Sir Joseph Porter: I polished up that handle⟳ so carefullee, That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!”

“[...] having rowed and portaged a score⟳ of pestilential leagues upstream from the disemboguement of El Rio Echt to discover⟳ a mine so deeply posh with all things gay, gaudy, and jinglesome in the pocket that the very rumor of it, much less its actuality, launched a merchant navee, a flotilla of sharp-toothed frigates and an extortion industry - and this was only chanticleer's crow at the dawning, before even he learned to peck sugar from the palm of the Barbadoes.”

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