Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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
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The plate-fleet of Spain, which the Spaniards call
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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!
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"Towing the King of Spain his plate-fleet behind you," quoth the mustachioed gentleman.
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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.
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"Now Neptune keep the plate-fleet at Cartagena!" whistled Arden.
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The plate-fleet stays at Cartagena, because of the illness of its Admiral,
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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.
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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.
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