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lightship

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light=ship

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lightship has 1 sense

lightship(n = noun.artifact) - a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable;

is a kind of

ship

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lightship, n.

A vessel equipped like a lighthouse, carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable, to serve as a guide for mariners; as, the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

lightship, n. a moored or anchored ship with a beacon light.

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