Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vessels engaged in transporting masses of precious metal; especially, the vessels which transported to Spain the products of the mines in Spanish America.
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Examples
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At the council-table, that great minister represented that Spain was only waiting for the arrival of her annual plate-fleet from America, and then she would declare war.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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The plate-fleet of Spain, which the Spaniards call
The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main George Alfred Williams 1903
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"Towing the King of Spain his plate-fleet behind you," quoth the mustachioed gentleman.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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The town is a cowardly place of priests, women, and rich men, but it holds every peso of this year's treasure gathered against the coming of the plate-fleet.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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"Now Neptune keep the plate-fleet at Cartagena!" whistled Arden.
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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If we miss the plate-fleet, my masters, if we find Cartagena or Santa Marta too strong for us, there is yet the unconquered land, the Hesperidian garden whence came these golden apples!
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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The plate-fleet stays at Cartagena, because of the illness of its Admiral,
Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903
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In an expedition led by Lord Charles Howard in 1591 against the Spanish plate-fleet, Grenville was vice-admiral, and he opposed his ship single-handed against five great Spanish galleons, supported at intervals by ten others, and he fought them during nearly fifteen hours.
England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894
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Mr. Secretary Winwood, it is admitted, calculated upon a collision with the Spaniards, and even upon Ralegh's seizure of the plate-fleet.
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They will keep the same faith with us as they kept with Captain Hawkins at San Juan d'Ulloa, in that accursed business which was the beginning of all the wars; when we might have taken the whole plate-fleet, with two hundred thousand pounds 'worth of gold on board, and did not, but only asked license to trade like honest men.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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