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Convoy
Convoy Con"voy, n. [F. convoi.]
1. The act of attending for defense; the state of being so
attended; protection; escort.
To obtain the convoy of a man-of-war. --Macaulay.
2. A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons,
employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money,
subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
3. A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way
from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for
protection or guidance.
When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy
on the road. --Emerson.
4. Conveyance; means of transportation. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to
check their velocity in going down a hill. --Knight.
ConvoyConvoy Con*voy", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convoyed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Convoying.] [F. convoyer, OF. conveier, convoier. See
Convey.]
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend
for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a
merchantman.
I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope
and joy. --Emerson.
Meaning of Convoys from wikipedia
- in
April 1917
convoys were trialled,
before being officially introduced in the
Atlantic in
September 1917.
Other arguments against convoys were raised....
- The
Arctic convoys of
World War II were
oceangoing convoys which sailed from the
United Kingdom, Iceland, and
North America to
northern ports in the Soviet...
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trucks would be parti****ting in the
convoys. On his blog, Fox News
commentator Sean
Hannity reported that the
convoy was made up of 10,000
heavy trucks...
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blockaded kibbutzim of Gush
Etzion in
January 1948,
after earlier motorized convoys had been attacked. They were
spotted before they
could reach their destination...
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Russian convoy may
refer to:
Russian Kyiv
Convoy, a
vehicle convoy that was part of the 2022 Kyiv
offensive Arctic convoys of
World War II,
naval convoys delivering...
- This is a List of
Allied convoys during World War II by region.
Hague 2000a, pp. 120–122. "Norwegian Campaign,
World War 2 at Sea,
April 1940". Archived...
- up
convoy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
convoy is a
group of
vehicles traveling together for
mutual support.
Convoy may also
refer to:
Convoy, County...
- HX
convoys were
transatlantic convoys in the
North Atlantic during the
First World War and in the
Battle of the
Atlantic in the
Second World War. HX convoys...
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Gibraltar convoys of
World War II were
oceangoing trade convoys of
merchant ships sailing between Gibraltar and the
United Kingdom.
Gibraltar convoy routes...
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underutilization of
scheduling quanta degrade overall performance. Lock
convoys often occur when
concurrency control primitives such as
locks serialize...
