seventy-four
noun1
Historical A ship having seventy-four guns.
- the ocean stream / Here and there studded with a seventy-four [...].1820, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section V:
- For all the world like a seventy-four of the line, / Riding the swell and firing off Finisterre.1958, Howard Nemerov, “Seven Macabre Songs”, in Mirrors and Windows: