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Training ship   /trˈeɪnɪŋ ʃɪp/   Listen
noun
Training  n.  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan.
Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction.
Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a.
Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. (U. S.)
Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.
Synonyms: See Education.






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"Training ship" Quotes from Famous Books



... his head. "I know when I'm beaten." He'd been going to suggest that the Brainchild was a training ship, from Snookums' "learning" periods, but that seemed rather obvious ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... a performance. In January, 1916, the United States Atlantic fleet, capable as to both material and personnel of going to sea and maneuvering together, consisted of 15 battleships and 23 destroyers, 2 mine-depot ships, and 1 mine-training ship, and 4 tugs fitted as mine-sweepers—with no submarines, no aircraft of any kind, no scouts (unless the Chester be so considered, which was cruising alone off the coast of Liberia, and the Birmingham, which was flag-ship to the destroyer flotilla). This was the only fleet that we had ready to ...
— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske



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