The term mothership dates back to the 19th century when small ships were used to chase whales.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFO and Paranormal News] Reference

Please remain seated, the mothership is closing in on your location and will soon pick you up for minor adjustments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novanta Designers Workstation by Luke Riggall » Yanko Design] Reference

A mothership is a vessel or craft that carries smaller vessels that operate independently.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFO and Paranormal News] Reference

"mothership" - both abstract female representations.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFO and Paranormal News] Reference

Joe thinks that crosswords come from the 'mothership' of entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bejeweled] Reference

She was there I suspect - a "mothership" of another kind - she hovered but did not land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Parker: DNC Act One Failure: The One-Size-Fits-All Messaging] Reference

Or how the minister was taken up to a UFO "mothership" where he got the inspiration for the original Million Man March.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it.] Reference

Is a cabal of drone aficionados deliberately starting with minimalist designs and working its way up to the equivalent of a "mothership"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

Mmm … the mothership is calling me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whole Foods Is Hands Down the Best Generic Midtown Deli | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference

V's toppling of its own "mothership" (heh, heh ...) show of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [G4 TV - TheFeed] Reference

Finally, the Wii "mothership" entry in the series, Tales of Graces.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This is the Wii "mothership" title that Namco Bandai debuted through a video last year.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Perhaps one could surface now and again under a Somali pirate 'mothership' and scare the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Mail news round-up] Reference

H. G. Wells 'War of the Worlds, adapted for radio by Howard Koch, is the "mothership" of all space invasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

The ship gained renown March 31 when it sank a pirate "mothership" after its crew tried to hijack an oil tanker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Corps Times - News] Reference

It acted as 'mothership' to the European Space Agency probe Huygens which landed on the surface of Titan in 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Gulf of Aden, which resulted in the apprehension of more than a dozen suspected pirates aboard an alleged "mothership" May 13.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

So, if they wanted they could simply modify their applet to call the mothership with your passwords and it’s the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangers of Online Encryption : #comments] Reference

That is: Ben Smith flies out to Beijing and James Whatley heads off to the 'mothership' (as he calls it - Nokia Central in Helsinki).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mobile Industry Review] Reference

The ship is carried to a height of 50,000 feet by a 'mothership' known as White Knight Two, currently in testing in the Mojave Desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [iTnews Australia] Reference

I took advantage of my lack of tethers to the 'mothership' to become a User Group Manager (staff cannot be UGMs) and a Community Expert.    From Wordnik.com.  [fullasagoog.com full roast blend] Reference

"mothership" in the nearby cosmos to be able to arrive in time to Earth to make a recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unexplained Mysteries] Reference

"mothership" was the Ekawat Nava 5, which had been seized by pirates off Yemen on November 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

I have to end with a plug for the mothership, Grist. org.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Introducing … Me!: David Roberts] Reference

And a first look at billionaire Sir Richard Branson's mothership.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2009] Reference

GERECHT: I mean, I think Afghanistan is the mothership for bin Laden.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004] Reference

"They would have picked me up at the broom mothership tomorrow," Elgar said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

The broom mothership has ultraluminal capability to enable it to move between solar systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perseus Spur]

The look was similar to that of a Goa'uld mothership, which didn't surprise anyone in the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference

This was an imposing, statesmanlike snack to be reckoned with; a nougat mothership; the Mars bar of royalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzwords for blowhards] Reference

No, the theory runs, they're on a luminous "Saturn-like object" (SLO) that's really an alien mothership following in Hale-Bopp's shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of The Great Comet] Reference