Meaning of rocket ship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A spacecraft propelled by a rocket engine.
2. A ship armed with rockets.

Examples

“At about 3 P.M., the four bomb-vessels and rocket-ship weighed, and stood further in; the latter, to give⟳ effect to her rockets, much nearer than the others.”

“And there was a further group, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), who had been a POW in Germany, and William Golding (1911–93), who had commanded a Royal Navy rocket ship, who were propelled by the ordeals of war to examine⟳ the complexities of human nature and human society.”

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