Captain's Cloak English

Meaning Captain's Cloak meaning

What does Captain's Cloak mean?

Captain's Cloak properNoun

— (colloquial, UK, naval, historical) The 36th and last of the Articles of War, effectively giving the ship's captain free rein in disciplining the crew: "All other crimes not capital committed by any person or persons in the fleet, which are not mentioned in this act, or for which no punishment is hereby directed to be inflicted, shall be punished by the laws and customs in such cases used at sea."

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Simple sentences

It's a cloak-and-dagger operation.

Under the cloak of anonymity cowards are acting as big-mouth.

And as she spoke she threw off her long cloak and everyone saw it was the queen.

Movie subtitles

The cloak, spread out like an ink stain disappeared under the work of the supernatural being who grew paler as he absorbed his prey.

Now, a formula to transform my beauty into ugliness, change my queenly raiment to a peddler's cloak.

Get me a cloak, quickly!

Here's your cloak.

How's it feel to have the woman you've wronged cloak your sins?

I'll take your hat to the cloak room.

I gave your mother a cloak. It was as good as new.

I gave your mother a cloak.

The cloak was as good as new. With glass beads.

Do I have to work myself to the bone because of that cloak?

Remember how I gave her a cloak?

Cloak, shmoak, our life is just a joke.

And then Morpheus, the god of sleep, covers everything with his cloak of night, as Diana, using the new moon as a bow, shoots an arrow of fire that spangles the sky with stars.

And not dissemble nor cloak them before almighty God, our heavenly father.

Make haste with that cloak there, my pretty one.

Get me a cloak.

With that I whisked her up on the saddle I covered with me cloak and we were off like the wind.

You'd better have a warm cloak.

Get Mr Trehearne the blue cloak, not the one with the astrakhan collar, get him a hat, and get me my cloak and hat.

Draw your cloak around you.

Get your cloak, Lygia.

We cloak ourselves in the glory of our name as if it were an achievement just to be born.

Sir Walter Raleigh, spreading his cloak in the mud. so that Queen Elizabeth might walk dry-shod.

Will you get my cloak from the hall?

Why, Grazia wanted her cloak.

Prince Sirki has brought her a cloak.

WHERE'S MY CLOAK?

WHERE IS YOUR CLOAK?

IT'S THE CLOAK AND BONNET SHE WORE TO THE FIRST BALL.

PATTY, GET YOUR CLOAK AND BONNET.

HE WRAPPED HER UP IN A CLOAK.

News and current affairs

CAMBRIDGE - Until recently, cyber security has primarily interested computer geeks and cloak-and-dagger types.

The use of the CIA as a secret army of destabilization has a long, tragic history of failure, all hidden from public view under the agency's cloak of secrecy.

Periodic civil strife and rebellion were not eliminated, but only in Vietnam was the longevity of a dynasty a cloak for inextinguishable internecine warfare.

Yet in Pakistan, the United States, and other countries where lawyers have helped to lead fights for human rights and the rule of law, lofty ideals cloak an equally important set of interests.

Bush is right to assert that repressive regimes can no longer hide behind a cloak of sovereignty: what goes on inside tyrannies and failed states is of vital interest to the rest of the world.

To this end, the US and its allies should consider striking Assad's strongholds in Syria, while establishing safe havens for the moderate opposition under the protective cloak of a no-fly zone.