English Explanatory Dictionary

Rocks and Shoals

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Articles for the Government of the United States Navy.

Word forms

Rocks and Shoals

Etymology

From the language of Article 4, Section 10, which prescribed the death penalty for "any person in the naval service...[who] intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals".

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