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of two ships coming from spain to this island of Hispaniola; and the one two days ahead of the other was shipwrecked, the people aboard marooned on a deserted islet; and how two days later the second ship ran aground and sank upright on another nearby low-lying islet; and how miraculously the second ship was refloated and collected [317] the people from the first lost ship and came to this city of santo domingo, where the ship was repaired and returned to spain.

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V. set (a grounded ship) afloat again.

From: refloat in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military »

Subjects: Warfare and Defence.

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