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A warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase.
Aircraft carrier.
HMCS MAGNIFICENT, and aircraft carrier that served in the Canadian navy in the post-war era.
Aircraft carrier.
Aircraft carrier is basketball slang for a player whose driving force can carry the team to victory.
1. From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, a classification for a wide variety of gun- and sometimes torpedo-armed warships, usually but not always armored, intended for independent scouting, raiding, or commerce protection; some were designed also to provide direct support to a battlefleet. 2. From the early 20th century to the mid-20th century, a type of armored warship with varying armament and of various sizes, but always smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer, capable of both direct support of a battle fleet and independent operations, armed with guns and sometimes torpedoes. 3. After the mid-20th century, various types of warships of intermediate size armed with guided missiles and sometimes guns, intended for air defense of aircraft carriers and associated task forces or for anti-ship missile attack against such forces; virtually indistinguishable from large destroyers since the late 20th century.
Any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another, including general cargo ships (designed to carry break bulk cargo), bulk carriers, container ships, multipurpose vessels, and tankers. Tankers, however, although technically cargo ships, are routinely thought of as constituting a completely separate category.
One of a navy's most important warships, generally possessing the heaviest firepower and armor and traditionally much larger than other naval vessels, but not formally defined. During the Age of Sail, generally understood to be ships-of-the-line; during the second half of the 19th century and the 20th century, understood to be battleships and battlecruisers; and since the 1940s considered to include aircraft carriers. Since the second half of the 20th century, ballistic missile submarines sometimes have been considered capital ships.
 A pimp, ponce or whore's minder.
Armored Troop Carrier (ATC). Sorta like an APC that really did float, but didn't do so good on land. The originals were LCM-6s with armor plate and bar armor added. They had nine seats for the troops and a canvas top to keep the sun out. Each tango could carry a fully equipped rifle platoon. They had two twin .50 cal. machine gun mounts on and a canvas top to keep the sun out. Each tango could carry a fully equipped rifle platoon. They had two twin .50 cal. machine gun mounts on the boat deck and four Browning .30 cal. light machine guns rechambered for NATO 7.62 mm in the well deck. In 1968 the Navy deployed two new river assault squadrons with tango boats built from the keel up specifically for riverine operation.
person who hold the drugs / money for a gang dealing at a rave
HMCS BONAVENTURE, and aircraft carrier that served in the Canadian Navy in the 1960s.
A merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo in its cargo holds. Also bulk freighter or bulker.
Carrier of drugs
carrier or supplier of drugs
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The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
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A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
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A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.
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Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
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A post or courier; a letter carrier.
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A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
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Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
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A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
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An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
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The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.
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One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
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A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
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A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
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That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
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One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
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A carrier shell (Phorus).
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A variety of carrier pigeon.
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A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.
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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
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An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
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