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- Convoy - v. t. - To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
- Convoy - n. - The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
- Convoy - n. - 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.
- Convoy - n. - A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
- Convoy - n. - Conveyance; means of transportation.
- Convoy - n. - A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
- Convoyed - imp. & p. p. - of Convoy
- Convoying - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Convoy
- Escort - n. - A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
- Safeguard - n. - A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
- Safe-conduct - n. - a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country
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