flareship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A military aircraft that drops illumination flares.
Example Sentences
- "Once the flareship reached the range, an orbit would be established to take the aircraft across the drop zone every 2 minutes 45 seconds. Depending on the type of ordnance to be delivered by the F-100 students, between two and four flares would be dropped on each pass."
- "Originally, the phrase Blind Bat was just the call sign for C-130s on forward air controller/flareship duty over southern Laos."
- "The Rangers held on tenaciously throughout the night supported by gunships and flareships."