noun fireship A ship loaded with burning material and explosives and set adrift to ignite and blow up an enemy’s ships. 1
noun fireship (nautical) A sailing ship that has been set alight and left to drift into an opposing fleet. Famously used by Englishman Sir Francis Drake when fighting the Spanish Armada of 1588. 0
noun fireship (Slang) (vulgar) A diseased prostitute. 0
noun fireship a vessel loaded with explosives and used, esp formerly, as a bomb by igniting it and directing it to drift among an enemy's warships 0
