Rocks and Shoals

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English

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Etymology

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From the language of Article 4, Section 10, which prescribed the death penalty for "any person in the naval service...[who] intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals".

Proper noun

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Rocks and Shoals

  1. (US, naval, informal, historical) The Articles for the Government of the United States Navy.