Synonyms:
Hispaniola, Haiti, Hayti
Meaning: an island in the West Indies
Usage examples
The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.
Good-bye to the HISPANIOLA; good-bye to the squire, the doctor, and the captain!
You never imagined a sweeter schooner--a child might sail her--two hundred tons; name, HISPANIOLA.
Blandly himself found the HISPANIOLA, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle.
I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good ship HISPANIOLA.
They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high--the most transparent calumnies.
They did not go directly to Tortuga, but stopped at a little island near Hispaniola, which was inhabited by French buccaneers, and this delay was made entirely for the purpose of dividing the booty.
Setting a course for Hispaniola, since they judged that thither must Rivarol go to refit before attempting to cross to France, the Arabella and the Elizabeth ploughed briskly northward with a moderately favourable wind for two days and nights without ever catching a glimpse of their quarry.