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battleship orig. U.S.|ˈbæt(ə)lʃɪp|
[Shortening of line-of-battle ship: see battle n. 12.]
A line-of-battle ship; a warship of the largest and most heavily armoured class.
1794D. Humphreys Poem on Industry 20 The dock equips, With batt'ries black and strong, the battleships. 1834Glascock Naval Sk. Bk. I. 185 A bluff weather-beaten captain of a battle ship. Ibid. 235 A battle-ship's bowsprit. 1845R. Ford Handbk. Trav. Spain I. iii. 363 Like the spars of a storm-wrecked battle-ship. 1884Marine Engineer 1 Apr. 4/2 The very heavily-armed battle-ship. 1959Chambers's Encycl. II. 162/1 The battleship has been the basic unit in all navies.
b. cruiser-battleship or battleship cruiser: a battleship of the type designed for speed, less heavily armoured than a ship of the line.
1909Whitaker's Alm. 681/2 Modern vessels of this class are no longer, save in official phraseology, ‘armoured cruisers’, but ‘cruiser-battleships’, or ‘cruiser-Dreadnoughts’. 1909Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 7/2 Armoured cruisers, or ‘battleship cruisers’, as they have been popularly termed.
c. attrib. and Comb. battleship grey (or gray), a slightly bluish grey colour often used in painting battleships.
1834Glascock Naval Sk. Bk. I. 154 To ascertain ‘the difference 'twixt the rigging and palaver of a methody parson, and the togs and talk of a reg'lar-built battle-ship preacher’. 1901Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 6/1 To choose his own time and place for the battleship action. 1904Ibid. 11 Feb. 8/2 The battleship strength of the Russians at Port Arthur. 1908Ibid. 11 Feb. 3/3 When the Dreadnought appeared battleship building in foreign yards paused. 1908Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 1/7 The American battleship fleet. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 July 12/3 The colors include battleship grey. 1938L. Macneice Earth Compels 54 Nights with stars or closely interleaved with battleship grey or plum. |