Read full poem →apparently insufficient provision for the rapid manufacture
of armaments and their prompt despatch when ordered to
their colonial destination. Hence the necessity for manu-
Dictionary Entry
A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.
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. despatch
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Poetry examples for “despatch”
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Read full poem →The Bearer from an Emerald Court
Of a Despatch of Pink.
Read full poem →The weight of years, and totters to the tempest,
Must heav'n despatch the messengers of light,
Or wake the dead, to warn us of its fall?