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Weather ship

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Noun
  1. 1
    A ship, usually permanently on station, tasked with reporting meteorological data.
  2. 2
    an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations wordnet
  3. 3
    A ship to the windward of another; considered an advantage in naval warfare.

    "If the weather ship be of inferior force, it enables her to keep out of action much longer, and, though a poorer sailer, she may do so until the intervention of night increases the chances of escape."

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