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Whitehead, n.2
A kind of torpedo, invented by Robert Whitehead. Also attrib.
1877Sci. Amer. 2 June 337/2 The Whitehead torpedo can be made to go at the rate of 20 knots for 1,000 yards, and at any depth that is desired from 1 foot to 30 feet. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/2 A blow with even an ordinary Whitehead, let alone the improved Whitehead of the German navy, would practically rip the bottom out of the strongest ship afloat. 1898Kipling Fleet in Being v. 54 Fancy a Whitehead smitten on the nose by one little shell. You'd go up. |