battle-cruisern.
A heavily armoured cruiser or cruiser-battleship (see battleship n. b).
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1911 Times 22 Nov. 6/3 In order to distinguish the armoured cruisers of earlier dates from those of the ‘Invincible’ and later types the latter vessels are to be..classified as battle cruisers.
1914 Daily Express 9 Sept. 1/2 The Nuremberg, a German cruiser, is said to be flying from a British battle cruiser.
1946 Jane's Fighting Ships 1944–5 432 The repair and refit of this battle-cruiser.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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