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Forkers
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Those who reside in sea-ports for the sake of stealing dockyard stores, or buying them, knowing them to be stolen.
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Forlorn hope, английский
Officers and men detached on desperate service to make a first attack, or to be the first in mounting a breach, or foremost in storming a fortress, or first to receive the whole fire of the enemy. forlorn-hopes was a term formerly applied to the videttes of the army. this ominous name (the enfants perdus of the french) is familiarized into a better one among soldiers, who call it the flowing-hope. promotion is usually bestowed on the survivors.
Forging over, английский
The act of forcing a ship violently over a shoal, by the effort of a great quantity of sail, steam, or other man[oe]uvre.
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