weather ship

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   an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations

   Broadervessel

Questions about weather ship

What does weather ship mean?

weather ship means "an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations".

Is weather ship a common word?

weather ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.